Absence of epidemic threshold in scale-free networks with connectivity correlations · HackerPapers discussionshttps://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/cond-mat_0208163/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMTAbsence of epidemic threshold in scale-free networks with connectivity correlations — mentioned by atemerevhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19907810urn:hackerpapers:mention:cond-mat_0208163:19907810Tue, 14 May 2019 08:45:30 GMT<p>Real networks are not lattices; they have varied degree distributions. The famous result of Marián Boguña and Alessandro Vespignani shows, that for scale-free networks (which closely resemble the networks we see in the real world), the epidemic threshold could be arbitrarily low: https://arxiv.org/pdf/cond-mat/0208163.pdf. I have also published some research among these lines: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1403.5815.pdf</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/cond-mat_0208163/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cond-mat.stat-mech