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In this paper, we are concerned with the dynamics of a reaction–diffusion SIRS epidemic model with the general saturated nonlinear incidence rates. Firstly, we show the global existence and boundedness of the in-time solutions for the parabolic system. Secondly, for the ODEs system, we analyze the existence and stability of the disease-free equilibrium solution, the endemic equilibrium solutions as well as the bifurcating periodic solution. In particular, in the language of the basic reproduction number, we are able to address the existence of the saddle-node-like bifurcation and the secondary bifurcation (Hopf bifurcation). Our results also suggest that the ODEs system has a Allee effect, i.e., one can expect either the coexistence of a stable disease-free equilibrium and a stable endemic equilibrium solution, or the coexistence of a stable disease-free equilibrium solution and a stable periodic solution. Finally, for the PDEs system, we are capable of deriving the Turing instability criteria in terms of the diffusion rates for both the endemic equilibrium solutions and the Hopf bifurcating periodic solution. The onset of Turing instability can bring out multi-level bifurcations and manifest itself as the appearance of new spatiotemporal patterns. It seems also interesting to note that p and k, appearing in the saturated incidence rate \(kSI^p/(1+\alpha I^p)\), tend to play far reaching roles in the spatiotemporal pattern formations.
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This work is financially supported by National Key R & D Program of China (2023YFA1009200), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (11971088, 12371160, 12271144) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (DUT18RC(3)070, DUT23LAB304).
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Appendix: The Calculation of the First Lyapunov Coefficient
Appendix: The Calculation of the First Lyapunov Coefficient
First, let \({u}=S-S_2, v=I-I_2, w=R-R_2\) and \(F(I)=\frac{kI^p}{1+\alpha I^p}\). Then, system (1.4) becomes
At \(\lambda =\overline{\lambda }(p)\), system (6.1) can be rewritten in the following vector form
where
where \(L_0({\overline{\lambda }}(p))=L_0(I_2^p)\) for \(I_2^p={\overline{\lambda }}(p)\) and
Then, \(L_0({\overline{\lambda }}(p))\) has \(\pm \omega _0i\) and \(-a_2({\overline{\lambda }}(p))\) as its eigenvalues, where \(\omega _0:=\sqrt{\varrho \mu -(d+\delta )^2}\) and \(a_2({\overline{\lambda }}(p))=d\), where \(\varrho \) is defined by (4.26).
Let \({\kappa _1}\) and \(\kappa _2\) be the eigenvectors corresponding to the eigenvalues \(i\omega _0\) and \(-a_2({\overline{\lambda }}(p))\) of \(L_0({\overline{\lambda }}(p))\), respectively. More precisely,
Choose
Then, \(Y^{-1}\) takes in the form of
where \(|Y|:=\mu \omega _0\big (\mu \varrho -\delta (2d+\delta )\big )\).
Therefore, we have
Let \((u, v, w)^T=Y(x,y,z)^T\). Then, we have
where
in which
Let \((f_1, f_2, f_3)^T:=Y^{-1}(-H,H,0)^T\). Then, we have
Then, the normal form of system (6.1) can be given by
By Hassard et al. (1981), She and Yi (2024), and Wang and Yi (2022), the first Lyapunov coefficient \(c_{1}({\overline{\lambda }}(p))\) is defined by
where
where all the quantities are evaluated at \(\lambda ={\overline{\lambda }}(p)\) and \((x, y, z)=(0,0,0)\).
In particular, we have
By (3.42), \(a_1({\overline{\lambda }}(p))a_2'({\overline{\lambda }}(p))+a_1'({\overline{\lambda }}(p))a_2({\overline{\lambda }}(p))-a_0'({\overline{\lambda }}(p))>0\). Then, by Lemma 3.1, if \({\text {Re}}\big (c_{1}({\overline{\lambda }}(p))\big )<0\) (\(\text {resp}., >0\)), the Hopf bifurcation occurring at \(I_2^p=\overline{\lambda }(p)\) is supercritical and backward (resp., subcritical and forward).
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She, G., Yi, F. Stability and Bifurcation Analysis of a Reaction–Diffusion SIRS Epidemic Model with the General Saturated Incidence Rate. J Nonlinear Sci 34, 101 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00332-024-10081-z
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Keywords
- The diffusive SIRS model
- General saturated incidence rate
- Saddle-node-like bifurcation and the multi-level bifurcation
- Turing instability of both the equilibrium solutions and the periodic solution