{ "id": "1802.02394", "version": "v1", "published": "2018-02-07T11:55:13.000Z", "updated": "2018-02-07T11:55:13.000Z", "title": "An improved upper bound for critical value of the contact process on $\\mathbb{Z}^d$ with $d\\geq 3$", "authors": [ "Xiaofeng Xue" ], "comment": "9 pages", "categories": [ "math.PR" ], "abstract": "In this paper we give an improved upper bound for critical value $\\lambda_c$ of the basic contact process on the lattice $\\mathbb{Z}^d$ with $d\\geq 3$. As a direct corollary of out result, \\[ \\lambda_c\\leq 0.384. \\] when $d=3$.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2018-02-07T11:55:13.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "upper bound", "critical value", "basic contact process", "direct corollary" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 9, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }