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On the well-posedness of a nonlinear diffusive SIR epidemic model

Analysis of PDEs 2021-09-21 v1

Abstract

This work considers an extension of the SIR equations from epidemiology that includes a spatial variable. This model, referred to as the Kermack-McKendrick equations (KM), is a pair of diffusive partial differential equations, and methods developed for the Navier-Stokes equations and models of fluid dynamics are adapted to prove that KM is well-posed in the homogenous Sobolev spaces with exponent 0s<20 \le s <2.

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@article{arxiv.2109.09039,
  title  = {On the well-posedness of a nonlinear diffusive SIR epidemic model},
  author = {C. Holliman and H. Prieto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.09039},
  year   = {2021}
}