Nonlinear Sciences – Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems
Scientific paper
2011-09-12
Phys. Rev. E 84, 051919 (2011)
Nonlinear Sciences
Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems
13 pages, 7 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevE.84.051919
We carry out an analytic investigation of stochastic oscillations in a susceptible-infected-recovered model of disease spread on a network of $n$ cities. In the model a fraction $f_{jk}$ of individuals from city $k$ commute to city $j$, where they may infect, or be infected by, others. Starting from a continuous time Markov description of the model the deterministic equations, which are valid in the limit when the population of each city is infinite, are recovered. The stochastic fluctuations about the fixed point of these equations are derived by use of the van Kampen system-size expansion. The fixed point structure of the deterministic equations is remarkably simple: a unique non-trivial fixed point always exists and has the feature that the fraction of susceptible, infected and recovered individuals is the same for each city irrespective of its size. We find that the stochastic fluctuations have an analogously simple dynamics: all oscillations have a single frequency, equal to that found in the one city case. We interpret this phenomenon in terms of the properties of the spectrum of the matrix of the linear approximation of the deterministic equations at the fixed point.
McKane Alan J.
Nunes A. A.
Rozhnova Ganna
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