Infection process near criticality: influence of the initial condition
P. L. Krapivsky
Abstract
Abstract We investigate how the initial number of infected individuals affects the behavior of the critical susceptible-infected-recovered process. We analyze the outbreak size distribution, duration of the outbreaks, and the role of fluctuations.
Topics & Concepts
CriticalityOutbreakDuration (music)Process (computing)Self-organized criticalityDistribution (mathematics)Statistical physicsStatisticsEconometricsMathematicsBiologyComputer sciencePhysicsVirologyNuclear physicsMathematical analysisOperating systemAcousticsComplex Network Analysis TechniquesOpinion Dynamics and Social InfluenceCOVID-19 epidemiological studies