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Hans-Karl Janssen1, Martin Müller, Olaf Stenull

  • 1Institut für Theoretische Physik III, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany.

Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics
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This study introduces a new "weakened" state to epidemic models, revealing a novel tricritical point. This discovery expands our understanding of epidemic dynamics and phase transitions in complex systems.

Area of Science:

  • Epidemiology
  • Statistical Physics
  • Complex Systems

Background:

  • The general epidemic process models disease spread with susceptible, infected, and dead states.
  • A second-order phase transition, linked to dynamic isotropic percolation, governs endemic and pandemic states.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To generalize the epidemic process by incorporating a "weakened" individual state.
  • To investigate the emergence of discontinuous transitions and tricritical points in epidemic dynamics.

Main Methods:

  • Introduction of a fourth "weakened" state into the general epidemic process.
  • Application of renormalized field theory and epsilon expansion below the upper critical dimension (d(c) = 5).

Main Results:

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  • Identification of a tricritical point, creating the "tricritical dynamic isotropic percolation" universality class.
  • Demonstration that exponents beta and beta(') differ at the tricritical point, unlike standard percolation.
  • Calculation of scaling exponents and logarithmic corrections to mean-field behavior at d(c) = 5.

Conclusions:

  • The generalized epidemic model allows for both continuous and discontinuous transitions.
  • The tricritical point represents a distinct universality class with unique scaling properties.
  • This work provides a detailed scaling description of tricritical dynamic isotropic percolation.