An infection process near criticality: Influence of the initial condition

Abstract

We investigate how the initial number of infected individuals affects the behavior of the critical susceptible-infected-recovered process. We analyze the outbreak size distribution, duration of the outbreaks, and the role of fluctuations.

13 pages, 3 figures

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