The role of clustering and gridlike ordering in epidemic spreading

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The spreading of an epidemic is determined by the connectiviy patterns which underlie the population. While it has been noted that a virus spreads more easily on a network in which global distances are small, it remains a great challenge to find approaches that unravel the precise role of local interconnectedness. Such topological properties enter very naturally in the framework of our two-timestep description, also providing a novel approach to tract a probabilistic system. The method is elaborated for SIS-type epidemic processes, leading to a quantitative interpretation of the role of loops up to length 4 in the onset of an epidemic.
Submitted to Phys. Rev. E; 15 pages, 11 figures, 5 tables

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Statistical Mechanics, Disordered Systems and Neural Networks, Quantitative Methods

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http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/23169

Consulte el texto completo en el siguiente enlace:

https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0401434
 http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0401434
 Phys. Rev. E 69, 066116 (2004), also included in the archive Virt. J. Biol. Phys. Research 7 (2004).
 doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.69.066116

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