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Available online at ScienceDirect Stochastic Processes and their Applications ( ) – /locate/spa Scaling limit of subcritical contact process Aurelia Deshayes?, Leonardo T. Rolla Argentinian National Research Council at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina NYU-ECNU Institute of Mathematical Sciences at NYU Shanghai, China Received 14 July 2016; received in revised form 2 December 2016; accepted 5 December 2016 Available online xxxx Abstract In this paper we study the subcritical contact process on Zd for large times, starting with all sites infected. The configuration is described in terms of the macroscopic locations of infected regions in space and the relative positions of infected sites in each such region. ?c 2016 Published by Elsevier B.V. Keywords: Subcritical contact process; Quasi stationary distribution; Scaling limit; Poisson point process 1. Introduction We consider the classical contact process on Zd , briefly described as follows. The state at time t is a subset ηt ? Zd , or equivalently an element ηt ∈ {0, 1}Zd . Each infected site x (i.e. x ∈ ηt ) heals spontaneously (i.e. is removed from ηt ) at rate 1. Each healthy site x (i.e. x ?∈ ηt ) gets infected (i.e. is added to ηt ) at rate given by the number of its nearest neighbors y that are infected at time t, multiplied by λ 0. The number λ is the only parameter of this time evolution. For A ? Zd , we denote by (ηtA)t distribution μ, we denote the pr0otcheessprboycηestμs. starting from η0 = When A = {x} we A. When A is random and write ηtx and when A = Zd has we may omit the superindex. The contact process is one of the simplest interacting particle systems that exhibit a phase transition. There exists a non-trivial critical value 0 λc ∞ such that the probability that ? Corresponding author at: Argentinian National Research Council at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. E-mail address: deshayes.aurelia@ (A. Deshayes). /10.1016/j.spa.2016.12.005 0304-4149/?c 2016 Published by Elsevier B.