Global asymptotic stability of a compartmental model for a pandemic | ||||
Journal of the Egyptian Mathematical Society | ||||
Volume 23, Issue 2, 2015, Page 251-255 PDF (473.39 K) | ||||
Document Type: Original Article | ||||
DOI: 10.1016/j.joems.2014.04.001 | ||||
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Authors | ||||
Surya Lamichhane; Yuming Chen* | ||||
Department of Mathematics, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5, Canada | ||||
Abstract | ||||
With influenza as a prototype, we propose a compartmental model for a pandemic by taking into account of recruitment. The model has a threshold dynamics. Precisely, when the basic reproduction number R0 6 1, the disease free equilibrium is globally asymptotically stable; when R0 > 1, the disease free equilibrium is unstable and there is a unique endemic equilibrium which globally attracts all solutions except the trivial one (the disease free equilibrium). These results are established by applying the LaSalle’s invariance principle. | ||||
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