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Sharpness versus robustness of the percolation transition in 2D contact processes
We study versions of the contact process with three states, and with
infections occurring at a rate depending on the overall infection density.
Motivated by a model described in [17] for vegetation patterns in arid
landscapes, we focus on percolation under invariant measures of such processes.
We prove that the percolation transition is sharp (for one of our models this
requires a reasonable assumption). This is shown to contradict a form of
'robust critical behaviour' with power law cluster size distribution for a
range of parameter values, as suggested in [17].Comment: 31 pages, to appear in Stochastic Processes and their Application