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A note on the cooperative two-type SIR processes on Galton-Watson trees

Probability 2026-02-24 v1

Abstract

In the standard SIR model on a graph, infected vertices infect their neighbors at rate α\alpha and recover at rate μ\mu. We consider a two-type SIR process where each individual in the graph can be infected with two types of diseases, AA and BB. Moreover, the two diseases interact in a cooperative way so that an individual that has been infected with one type of disease can acquire the other at a higher rate. We prove that if the underlying graph is a Galton-Watson tree and initially the root is infected with both AA and BB, while all others are susceptible, then the two-type SIR model has the same critical value for the survival probability as the classic single-type model.

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@article{arxiv.2602.18784,
  title  = {A note on the cooperative two-type SIR processes on Galton-Watson trees},
  author = {Ruibo Ma and Tai Heng Liu and Baghdadi Othmane and Dong Yao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.18784},
  year   = {2026}
}
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