Generating function approach for the effective degree SIR Model
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2021-01-05
Authors
Manke, Kurtis
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Abstract
The effective degree model has been applied to both SIR and SIS type diseases
(those which confer permanent immunity and those which do not, respectively) with
great success. The original model considers a large system of ODEs to keep track of
the number of infected and susceptible neighbours of an individual. In this thesis, we
use a generating function approach on the SIR effective degree model to transform
the system of ODEs into a single PDE. This has the advantage of allowing the con-
sideration of infinite networks. We derive existence and uniqueness of solutions to the
PDE. Furthermore, we show that the linear stability of the PDE is governed by the
same disease threshold derived by the ODE model, and we also show the nonlinear
instability of the PDE agrees with the same disease threshold.
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math epidemiology, partial differential equations, SIR disease model