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ArticlePhysica D. Nonlinear phenomena2020

Hamiltonian structure of compartmental epidemiological models.

Angel Ballesteros, Alfonso Blasco, Ivan Gutierrez-Sagredo

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Article in Physica D. Nonlinear phenomena, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Nonlinear science against the COVID-19 pandemic.Physica D. Nonlinear phenomena · 2021
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  9. Size and timescale of epidemics in the SIR framework.Physica D. Nonlinear phenomena · 2020
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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors.

Angel BallesterosDepartamento de Física, Universidad de Burgos, 09001 Burgos, Spain.
Alfonso BlascoDepartamento de Física, Universidad de Burgos, 09001 Burgos, Spain.
Ivan Gutierrez-SagredoDepartamento de Física, Universidad de Burgos, 09001 Burgos, Spain.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Any epidemiological compartmental model with constant population is shown to be a Hamiltonian dynamical system in which the total population plays the role of the Hamiltonian function. Moreover, some particular cases within this large class of models are shown to be bi-Hamiltonian. New interacting compartmental models among different populations, which are endowed with a Hamiltonian structure, are introduced. The Poisson structures underlying the Hamiltonian description of all these dynamical systems are explicitly presented, and their associated Casimir functions are shown to provide an efficient tool in order to find exact analytical solutions for epidemiological models, such as the ones describing the dynamics of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Casimir functionsCompartmental modelsDynamical systemsEpidemicsHamiltonian systemsPoisson structures

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PMID32834251
PMCPMC7375975

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