A one-parameter family of stationary solutions in the susceptible-infected-susceptible epidemic model (Q601324): Difference between revisions

Modeling spatial effects for epidemics has become quite important. The last several epidemics, e.g., foot and mouth disease, SARS, H1N1, bird flu all have spatial effects. Hence the topic of this paper is quite important. Network modeling (mostly) have little analytic results. This paper is one of the few which avoid this problem. It studies the uncorrelated Susceptible-Infected-Susceptible (SIS) model in epidemiology on top of a one parametric family of networks whose connectivity distribution interpolates from scale free (SF) to exponential. For each network, the fraction of the population infected in the long term is a recursively defined hypergeometric function. I strongly propose that the reader performs the calculations of this paper him/her self.