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We show that a continuous-time version of the triangle condition for percolation implies mean-field values for several contact process critical exponents. Our results support the belief that the upper critical (spatial) dimension for the contact process is four.
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Barsky, D.J., Wu, C.C. Critical Exponents for the Contact Process under the Triangle Condition. Journal of Statistical Physics 91, 95–124 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1023036020125
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