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Epidemic spreading in correlated complex networks

Year: 2002

Type: article

Abstract: We study a dynamical model of epidemic spreading on complex networks in which there are explicit correlations among the node's connectivities. For the case of Markovian complex networks, showing only correlations between pairs of nodes, we find an epidemic threshold inversely proportional to the largest eigenvalue of the connectivity matrix that gives the average number of links, which from a node with connectivity k go to nodes with connectivity k('). Numerical simulations on a correlated growing network model provide support for our conclusions.

Source: Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics

DOI: 10.1103/physreve.66.047104

Authors: Marián Boguñá, Romualdo Pastor-Satorras

Institutions: Universitat de Barcelona, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Language: English

Topic: Complex Network Analysis Techniques

Subfield: Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

Field: Physics and Astronomy

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funders: European Commission, Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología

OpenAlex ID: W2038063928

FWCI: 7.082

Cites: 27

Cited by: 551

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