High degree vertices and spread of infections in spatially modelled social networks

DOI10.1007/978-3-319-67810-8_5zbMATH Open1504.92127arXiv1903.00077OpenAlexW3103631579MaRDI QIDQ5045296FDOQ5045296

Authors: Joshua Feldman, Jeannette Janssen 

Publication date: 4 November 2022

Published in: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We examine how the behaviour of high degree vertices in a network affects whether an infection spreads through communities or jumps between them. We study two stochastic susceptible-infected-recovered (SIR) processes and represent our network with a spatial preferential attachment (SPA) network. In one of the two epidemic scenarios we adjust the contagiousness of high degree vertices so that they are less contagious. We show that, for this scenario, the infection travels through communities rather than jumps between them. We conjecture that this is not the case in the other scenario, when contagion is independent of the degree of the originating vertex. Our theoretical results and conjecture are supported by simulations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.00077

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zbMATH Keywords

contact processpreferential attachmentspatial graph modelinfection in networks

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Epidemiology (92D30) Social networks; opinion dynamics (91D30)

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