A branching process with contact tracing
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2020-08-03 v1
Abstract
We consider a supercritical branching process and define a contact tracing mechanism on its genealogical tree. We calculate the growth rate of the post tracing process, and give conditions under which the tracing is strong enough to drive the process to extinction.
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@article{arxiv.2007.16182,
title = {A branching process with contact tracing},
author = {M. T. Barlow},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.16182},
year = {2020}
}