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A mean field limit of the contact process is obtained as the rangeM approaches ∞. Fluctuations about the deterministic limit are identified as a Generalized Ornstein Uhlenbeck process.
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Research supported in part by the Army Research Office through the Mathematical Sciences Institute at Cornell University and by NSF Grant: DMS 8902152
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Swindle, G. A mean field limit of the contact process with large range. Probab. Th. Rel. Fields 85, 261–282 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01277984
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