Analysis of a SIR model with pulse vaccination and temporary immunity: Stability, bifurcation and a cylindrical attractor

Publication date: December 2019Source: Nonlinear Analysis: Real World Applications, Volume 50Author(s): Kevin E.M. Church, Xinzhi LiuAbstractA time-delayed SIR model with general nonlinear incidence rate, pulse vaccination and temporary immunity is developed. The basic reproduction number is derived and it is shown that the disease-free periodic solution generically undergoes a transcritical bifurcation to an endemic periodic solution as the vaccination coverage drops below a critical level. Using numerical continuation and a monodromy operator discretization scheme, we track the bifurcating endemic periodic solution as the vaccination coverage is decreased and a Hopf point is detected. This leads to a bifurcation to an attracting, invariant cylinder. As the vaccination coverage is further decreased, the geometry of the cylinder contracts along its length until it finally collapses to a periodic orbit when the vaccination coverage goes to zero. In the intermediate regime, phase locking on the cylinder is observed.
Source: Nonlinear Analysis: Real World Applications - Category: Research Source Type: research