Multiple transitions of the susceptible-infected-susceptible epidemic model on complex networks
The epidemic threshold of the susceptible-infected-susceptible (SIS) dynamics on random networks having a power law degree distribution with exponent γ > 3 has been investigated using different mean-field approaches, which predict different outcomes. We performed extensive simulations in the quas...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2015 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Federal de Viçosa (UFV) |
| Repositorio: | LOCUS Repositório Institucional da UFV |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:locus.ufv.br:123456789/19421 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.91.012816 http://www.locus.ufv.br/handle/123456789/19421 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Multiple transitions Susceptible-infected Susceptible epidemic Complex networks |
| Sumario: | The epidemic threshold of the susceptible-infected-susceptible (SIS) dynamics on random networks having a power law degree distribution with exponent γ > 3 has been investigated using different mean-field approaches, which predict different outcomes. We performed extensive simulations in the quasistationary state for a comparison with these mean-field theories. We observed concomitant multiple transitions in individual networks presenting large gaps in the degree distribution and the obtained multiple epidemic thresholds are well described by different mean-field theories. We observed that the transitions involving thresholds which vanish at the thermodynamic limit involve localized states, in which a vanishing fraction of the network effectively contributes to epidemic activity, whereas an endemic state, with a finite density of infected vertices, occurs at a finite threshold. The multiple transitions are related to the activations of distinct subdomains of the network, which are not directly connected. |
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