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Record W4417451010 · doi:10.3934/dcds.2026013

Spatial spreading wave in a diffusive SIR model with delayed infection force reflecting host precaution

2025· article· W4417451010 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueDiscrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems · 2025
Typearticle
Language
FieldMathematics
TopicCOVID-19 epidemiological studies
Canadian institutionsWestern University
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaChina Scholarship CouncilScience and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality
KeywordsEpidemic modelTraveling waveWave speedFunction (biology)Nonlinear systemTerm (time)Wave model

Abstract

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In this paper, we first propose a diffusive SIR model with the incidence rate function revised to a general nonlinear incidence rate function with delay that reflects the impact of behavior changes due to the precaution of the host. The main concern is the existence/non-existence of traveling wave solutions. When $ R_0 \le 1 $, we prove that the model does not allow a traveling wave for any speed. When $ R_0>1 $ however, we show that there exists a minimal wave speed $ c_*>0 $ in the sense that for every $ c\geq c_* $, the model has a traveling wave with speed $ c $, while the model does not have a traveling wave with any speed $ c \in (0, c_*) $. We derive an equation that implicitly determines the final size of the model. Finally, for some examples, we numerically explore the impact of some model parameters; particularly, and interestingly, we show that the parameters involved in the behavior change term can cause multiple outbreaks. These novel results are mathematically interesting and practically significant because they can help us better understand the role and impact of some non-pharmaceutical interventions during epidemics.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.895
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.057
GPT teacher head0.352
Teacher spread0.295 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it