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Perturbations in epidemiological models: When zombies attack, we can survive!

Populations and Evolution 2022-07-26 v1 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate the existence of stability-changing bifurcations in epidemiological models used to study the spread of zombiism through a human population. These bifurcations show that although linear instability of disease-free equilibria may exist in a model, perturbations of model parameters may result in stability. Thus, we show that humans can survive a zombie outbreak.

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@article{arxiv.2207.12195,
  title  = {Perturbations in epidemiological models: When zombies attack, we can survive!},
  author = {Robert F. Allen and Cassandra Jens and Theodore J. Wendt},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.12195},
  year   = {2022}
}
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