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Independently open vertices of a directed graph with common probability $p$, and require every vertex of an infinite directed path to be open, including its root. Conditioning the root to be open changes the survival probability by a factor $p$ and does not change the critical probability. This model gives an independent comparison process in the independent oriented-percolation comparison for the contact process.

The previous part and the permitted assumption $p_c(\mathrm{bond})<1$ imply $p_c(\mathrm{site})<1$. We build an independent oriented site percolation process whose open paths carry contact-process infections, and whose site probability tends to one as $\lambda$ increases.

Use the graphical representation of the contact process with recovery rate one and per-neighbour arrow rate $\lambda$. Fix $\delta >0$. On the parity lattice $(x,n)$ with $n\ge 0$ and $x+n$ even, declare $(x,n)$ good if there is no recovery mark at $x$ during $[(n-1)\delta ,(n+1)\delta ]$, and there is at least one arrow from $x$ to each of $x-1,x+1$ during $[n\delta ,(n+1)\delta ]$. Extend the Poisson clocks to negative times solely to define the root event; the process itself still starts at time zero. Goodness has probability

The independence here is important. At a fixed spatial site $x$, the allowed time indices differ by two. Its two-unit recovery intervals therefore have disjoint interiors, and its outgoing-arrow intervals are disjoint. At different spatial sites, recovery clocks are different and outgoing arrows have different tails, hence use different directed-edge clocks. Every defining random input belongs to just one parity site's event, up to deterministic interval endpoints at which a Poisson mark has probability zero. Thus the good-site indicators really are independent, with common probability $q$; no theorem about dependent percolation is needed.

Suppose $(x,n)$ and $(x\pm 1,n+1)$ are both good and $x$ is infected at time $n\delta$. The source has no recovery before $(n+1)\delta$, and it sends an arrow to the chosen neighbour during that interval. The target's good event excludes recovery throughout $[n\delta ,(n+2)\delta ]$, so the target is infected at time $(n+1)\delta$. Induction shows that any infinite oriented path of good sites starting at $(0,0)$ sustains infection at every time layer. Along each transmitting interval there is always an infected site, so the contact process never reaches its empty absorbing state.

Take $\delta ={\lambda }^{-1/2}$. ThenFor some finite $\lambda$ it exceeds $p_c(\mathrm{site})$, and the good-site process has positive survival probability. The contact process begun from the origin therefore also survives with positive probability. HenceThis is the independent oriented-percolation comparison for the contact process. If the infection convention assigns total rate $\lambda$ rather than rate $\lambda$ to each of the two neighbours, replace the arrow rate by $\lambda /2$; the same limit proves the same finiteness conclusion.