https://doi.org/10.1140/epjs/s11734-021-00161-6
Regular Article
Path-integral formulation of spreading processes in complex networks
Institute for Physics, Humboldt-University of Berlin, Newtonstrasse 15, 12489, Berlin, Germany
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flavio.iannelli@business.uzh
Received:
26
November
2020
Accepted:
23
April
2021
Published online:
19
June
2021
We introduce a path-integral formulation of network-based measures that generalize the concept of geodesic distance and that provides fundamental insights into the dynamics of disease transmission as well as an efficient numerical estimation of the infection arrival time.
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