Epidemics 2
Talkat Graph Limits and Processes on Networks: From Epidemics to Misinformation Boot Camp · 2022-08-29..09-02
summary
Standard stochastic SIR on N individuals is shown to couple to a branching process by constructing IID Poisson contact processes, IID infectious periods and IID uniforms; the coupling holds with probability →1 up to about square-root-N coupling window, because ghost events (re-contacts) are unlikely. For Markovian infections the main phase follows a density-dependent jump Markov/Kurtz limit (deterministic SIR) with Gaussian O(1/√N) fluctuations, final size is either negligible or a fraction τ (Reed–Frost maximizes major-outbreak probability), and total duration scales like constants times log N.
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