Effective one-dimension reduction of multi-compartment complex systems dynamics

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Autori principali: Visco, Giorgio Vittorio, Nauta, Johannes, Scagliarini, Tomas, Artime, Oriol, De Domenico, Manlio
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author Visco, Giorgio Vittorio
Nauta, Johannes
Scagliarini, Tomas
Artime, Oriol
De Domenico, Manlio
author_facet Visco, Giorgio Vittorio
Nauta, Johannes
Scagliarini, Tomas
Artime, Oriol
De Domenico, Manlio
contents A broad class of systems, including ecological, epidemiological, and sociological ones, are characterized by populations of individuals assigned to specific categories, e.g., a chemical species, an opinion or an epidemic state, that are modeled as compartments. Due to interactions and intrinsic dynamics, individuals are allowed to change category, leading to concentrations varying over time with complex behavior, typical of reaction-diffusion systems. While compartmental modeling provides a powerful framework for studying the dynamics of such populations and describe the spatiotemporal evolution of a system, it mostly relies on deterministic mean-field descriptions to deal with systems with many degrees of freedom. Here, we propose a method to alleviate some of the limitations of compartmental models by capitalizing on tools originating from quantum physics to systematically reduce multi-dimensional systems to an effective one-dimensional representation. Using this reduced system, we are able to not only investigate the mean-field dynamics and their critical behavior, but we can additionally study stochastic representations that capture fundamental features of the system. We demonstrate the validity of our formalism by studying the critical behavior of models widely adopted to study epidemic, ecological and economic systems.
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spellingShingle Effective one-dimension reduction of multi-compartment complex systems dynamics
Visco, Giorgio Vittorio
Nauta, Johannes
Scagliarini, Tomas
Artime, Oriol
De Domenico, Manlio
Statistical Mechanics
Physics and Society
A broad class of systems, including ecological, epidemiological, and sociological ones, are characterized by populations of individuals assigned to specific categories, e.g., a chemical species, an opinion or an epidemic state, that are modeled as compartments. Due to interactions and intrinsic dynamics, individuals are allowed to change category, leading to concentrations varying over time with complex behavior, typical of reaction-diffusion systems. While compartmental modeling provides a powerful framework for studying the dynamics of such populations and describe the spatiotemporal evolution of a system, it mostly relies on deterministic mean-field descriptions to deal with systems with many degrees of freedom. Here, we propose a method to alleviate some of the limitations of compartmental models by capitalizing on tools originating from quantum physics to systematically reduce multi-dimensional systems to an effective one-dimensional representation. Using this reduced system, we are able to not only investigate the mean-field dynamics and their critical behavior, but we can additionally study stochastic representations that capture fundamental features of the system. We demonstrate the validity of our formalism by studying the critical behavior of models widely adopted to study epidemic, ecological and economic systems.
title Effective one-dimension reduction of multi-compartment complex systems dynamics
topic Statistical Mechanics
Physics and Society
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.11366