%0 Journal Article %1 WOS:000231574400019 %A Gonzalez, MC %A Herrmann, HJ %A Araujo, AD %C PO BOX 211, 1000 AE AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS %D 2005 %I ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV %J PHYSICA A-STATISTICAL MECHANICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS %K clusters; contact dynamics} epidemic number of phase process; transitions; {non-equilibrium %N 1 %P 100-106 %R 10.1016/j.physa.2005.05.020 %T Cluster size distribution of infection in a system of mobile agents %V 356 %X Clusters of infected individuals are defined on data from health laboratories, but this quantity has not been defined and characterized by epidemy models on statistical physics. For a system of mobile agents we simulate a model of infection without immunization and show that all the moments of the cluster size distribution at the critical rate of infection are characterized by only one exponent, which is the same exponent that determines the behavior of the total number of infected agents. No giant cluster survives independent of the magnitude of the rate of infection. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

@article{WOS:000231574400019, abstract = {Clusters of infected individuals are defined on data from health laboratories, but this quantity has not been defined and characterized by epidemy models on statistical physics. For a system of mobile agents we simulate a model of infection without immunization and show that all the moments of the cluster size distribution at the critical rate of infection are characterized by only one exponent, which is the same exponent that determines the behavior of the total number of infected agents. No giant cluster survives independent of the magnitude of the rate of infection. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.}, added-at = {2022-05-23T20:00:14.000+0200}, address = {PO BOX 211, 1000 AE AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS}, author = {Gonzalez, MC and Herrmann, HJ and Araujo, AD}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2bc757ac6c769611077b578145a1aee8b/ppgfis_ufc_br}, doi = {10.1016/j.physa.2005.05.020}, interhash = {51ec04195ba3236f1f882c0527eff69b}, intrahash = {bc757ac6c769611077b578145a1aee8b}, issn = {0378-4371}, journal = {PHYSICA A-STATISTICAL MECHANICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS}, keywords = {clusters; contact dynamics} epidemic number of phase process; transitions; {non-equilibrium}, note = {14th Conference on Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics and Nonlinear Physics (MEDYFINOL 04), La Serena, CHILE, DEC 06-10, 2004}, number = 1, organization = {Univ Chile, Sho Phys & Math Sci; Univ Buenos Aires, Sch Exact & Nat Sci; Univ Los andes, Sch Engn}, pages = {100-106}, publisher = {ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV}, pubstate = {published}, timestamp = {2022-05-23T20:00:14.000+0200}, title = {Cluster size distribution of infection in a system of mobile agents}, tppubtype = {article}, volume = 356, year = 2005 }