Epidemic models with varying infectivity on a refining spatial grid. I. The SI model

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Authors: Anicet Mougabe-Peurkor, Etienne Pardoux, Ténan Yeo 

Publication date: 4 June 2023

Abstract: We consider a space-time SI epidemic model with infection age-dependent infectivity and non-local infections constructed on a grid of the torus $mathbb{T}^1=(0,1{]}^d$, where the individuals may migrate from node to another. The migration processes in either of the two states are assumed to be Markovian. We establish a functional law of large numbers by letting jointly $N$ the initial approximate number of individuals on each node go to infinity and $varepsilon$ the mesh size of the grid go to zero. The limit is a system of parabolic PDE/integral equations. The constraint on the speed of convergence of the parameters $N$ and $varepsilon$ is that $Nvarepsilo{n}^{d}oinfty$ as $(N,varepsilon)o(+infty,0)$.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Epidemiology (92D30) Functional limit theorems; invariance principles (60F17) Applications of stochastic analysis (to PDEs, etc.) (60H30)

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