Direct, physically-motivated derivation of the contagion condition for spreading processes on generalized random networks

Peter Sheridan Dodds; Kameron Decker Harris; Joshua L. Payne

Direct, physically-motivated derivation of the contagion condition for spreading processes on generalized random networks

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks 2011-05-17 v4 Social and Information Networks Physics and Society

Authors: Peter Sheridan Dodds , Kameron Decker Harris , Joshua L. Payne

Abstract

For a broad range single-seed contagion processes acting on generalized random networks, we derive a unifying analytic expression for the possibility of global spreading events in a straightforward, physically intuitive fashion. Our reasoning lays bare a direct mechanical understanding of an archetypal spreading phenomena that is not evident in circuitous extant mathematical approaches.

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contagion processes generalized random networks global spreading analytic derivation physical intuition single-seed

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@article{arxiv.1101.5591,
  title  = {Direct, physically-motivated derivation of the contagion condition for spreading processes on generalized random networks},
  author = {Peter Sheridan Dodds and Kameron Decker Harris and Joshua L. Payne},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1101.5591},
  year   = {2011}
}

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Direct, physically-motivated derivation of the contagion condition for spreading processes on generalized random networks

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