SIR epidemics on evolving graphs
Probability
2019-01-23 v1
Abstract
We consider evoSIR, a variant of the SIR model, on Erd\H os-Renyi random graphs in which susceptibles with an infected neighbor break that connection at rate and rewire to a randomly chosen individual. We compute the critical infection rate and the probability of a large epidemic by showing that they are the same for the delSIR model in which connections are deleted instead of rewired. The final size of a large delSIR epidemic has a continuous transition. Simulations suggest that the final size of a large evoSIR epidemic is discontinuous at .
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@article{arxiv.1901.06568,
title = {SIR epidemics on evolving graphs},
author = {Yufeng Jiang and Remy Kassem and Grayson York and Matthew Junge and Rick Durrett},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.06568},
year = {2019}
}
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