A complete convergence theorem for voter model perturbations

Abstract

We prove a complete convergence theorem for a class of symmetric voter model perturbations with annihilating duals. A special case of interest covered by our results is the stochastic spatial Lotka–Volterra model introduced by Neuhauser and Pacala [Ann. Appl. Probab. 9 (1999) 1226–1259]. We also treat two additional models, the “affine” and “geometric” voter models.