Direct, Physically-Motivated Derivation of the Contagion Condition for Spreading Processes on Generalized Random Networks

Authors

Peter Sheridan Dodds, The University of Vermont
Kameron Decker Harris, The University of Vermont
Joshua L. Payne, Dartmouth College

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

5-2011

Publication Title

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Abstract

For a broad range of single-seed contagion processes acting on generalized random networks, we derive a unifying analytic expression for the possibility of global spreading events in a straightforward, physically intuitive fashion. Our reasoning lays bare a direct mechanical understanding of an archetypal spreading phenomena that is not evident in circuitous extant mathematical approaches.

DOI

10.1103/PhysRevE.83.056122

Dartmouth Digital Commons Citation

Dodds, Peter Sheridan; Harris, Kameron Decker; and Payne, Joshua L., "Direct, Physically-Motivated Derivation of the Contagion Condition for Spreading Processes on Generalized Random Networks" (2011). Dartmouth Scholarship. 1660.
https://digitalcommons.dartmouth.edu/facoa/1660