Critical behaviour of the partner model

DOI10.1214/15-AAP1163MaRDI QIDQ350694zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Eric Foxall

Publication date 9 December 2016

Published in The Annals of Applied Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.3351

zbMATH Keywords

contact processinteracting particle systemsSIS model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Epidemiology (92D30) Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Continuous-time Markov processes on general state spaces (60J25)

Abstract: We consider a stochastic model of infection spread incorporating monogamous partnership dynamics. In previous work a basic reproduction number $R_0$ is defined with the property that if $R_0<1$ the infection dies out within $O(logN)$ units of time, while if $R_0>1$ the infection survives for at least $e^{gammaN}$ units of time, for some $gamma>0$. Here we consider the critical case $R_0=1$ and show that the infection dies out within $O(sqrtN)$ units of time, and moreover that this estimate is sharp.

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