Percolation representations of additive particle systems

Abstract

It is well-known that additive interacting particle systems with a local state space of cardinality two have a percolation representation in terms of open paths in a graphical representation. In this paper, it is shown how such a percolation representation can be constructed more generally when the local state space is a finite distributive lattice. The theory is demonstrated on Krone's two-stage contact process.