title: Direct, physically motivated derivation of the contagion condition for spreading processes on generalized random networks.
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.
authors: Department of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont 05401, USA. peter.dodds@uvm.edu
authors: Peter Sheridan
authors: PS
authors: Dodds
authors: Kameron Decker
authors: KD
authors: Harris
authors: Joshua L
authors: JL
authors: Payne
mesh_terms: D003141:Communicable Diseases / Q000635:transmission*; D008954:Models, Biological; D013269:Stochastic Processes