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We introduce a method to prove metastability of the contact process on ErdH{o}s-Renyi graphs and on configuration model graphs. The method relies on uniformly bounding the total infection rate from below, over all sets with a fixed number of nodes. Once this bound is established, a simple comparison with a well chosen birth-and-death process will show the exponential growth of the extinction time. Our paper complements recent results on the metastability of the contact process: under a certain minimal edge density condition, we give explicit lower bounds on the infection rate needed to get metastability, and we have explicit exponentially growing lower bounds on the expected extinction time.
We consider the contact process on the model of hyperbolic random graph, in the regime when the degree distribution obeys a power law with exponent $chi in(1,2)$ (so that the degree distribution has finite mean and infinite second moment). We show th
We show that the contact process on the rank-one inhomogeneous random graphs and Erdos-R{e}nyi graphs with mean degree large enough survives a time exponential in the size of these graphs for any positive infection rate. In addition, a metastable result for the extinction time is also proved.
The key to our investigation is an improved (and in a sense sharp) understanding of the survival time of the contact process on star graphs. Using these results, we show that for the contact process on Galton-Watson trees, when the offspring distribu
We consider the extinction time of the contact process on increasing sequences of finite graphs obtained from a variety of random graph models. Under the assumption that the infection rate is above the critical value for the process on the integer li
In this note we give a new method for getting a series of approximations for the extinction probability of the one-dimensional contact process by using the Grobner basis.