Abstract
In this paper, we establish a random epidemic model with double vaccination and spontaneous variation of the virus. Firstly, we prove the global existence and uniqueness of positive solutions for a stochastic epidemic model. Secondly, we prove the threshold can be used to control the stochastic dynamics of the model. If , the disease will be extinct with probability 1; whereas if , the disease can almost certainly continue to exist, and there is a unique stable distribution. Finally, we give some numerical examples to verify our theoretical results. Most of the existing studies prove the stochastic dynamics of the model by constructing Lyapunov functions. However, the construction of a Lyapunov function of higher-order models is extremely complex, so this method is not applicable to all models. In this paper, we use the definition method suitable for more models to prove the stationary distribution. Most of the stochastic infectious disease models studied now are second-order or third-order, and cannot accurately describe infectious diseases. In order to solve this kind of problem, this paper adopts a higher price five-order model.
MSC:
92-10; 92B05
1. Introduction
Infectious diseases have become the greatest enemy of human health. When an infectious disease appears and prevails in an area, the primary task is to make every effort to prevent the spread of the disease. Vaccination is one of the important preventive measures. Through vaccination, smallpox was eliminated in the world at the end of the 1970s. This is a great victory for human beings in the fight against infectious diseases, an important milestone in the history of preventive medicine, and a great achievement of vaccination for human beings. In mathematical epidemiology, the control and eradication of infectious diseases are urgent problems, and have greatly attracted the interest of researchers in many fields. Now scholars have proposed and extensively discussed various types of optimizing models and their influencing factors, such as vaccination, time delay, impulse, media reports, etc. [1,2,3,4]. However, as a disease progresses, a virus can mutate as it spreads, allowing the disease to spiral out of control. Cai et al. analyzed the stability of the infectious disease model of virus mutation of inoculation, but only considered the condition that the inoculated individual was completely effective against the virus at a certain stage [5,6]. Baba and Bilgen et al. considered the problem of double-inoculation infectious diseases, which had an adverse effect on the two viruses respectively, but did not consider the conversion between patients infected with the two viruses [7,8]. Therefore, on the basis of the research on the problem of virus mutated infectious disease, considering the situation of two kinds of vaccination for susceptible people, a kind of virus mutated infectious disease model with double vaccination was proposed.
Taking into account the important role of vaccination in preventing the occurrence of infectious diseases, we assume that the first type of vaccinated people are fully immune to the premutation virus and partially resistant to the post mutation virus, whereas the second are fully immune to the postmutation virus and partially resistant to the premutation virus. In addition, the two types of the infected are infectious, and the disease is not fatal before the virus mutation, whereas it is fatal after the virus mutation. Based on the above assumptions, a model was established as follows:
where and , respectively, represent the number at the time t of the susceptible, those vaccinated to the first and to the second types of vaccines, the infected before and after virus mutation, and the recovered. is the input rate of the population. and are the infection coefficients, respectively, before and after virus mutation. a is the natural mortality of the population. and are the vaccination rates of the first and the second vaccines. and are the infection rates of the infected with the first type of people vaccinated after virus mutation, and the second before virus mutation, respectively. and are the recovery rates of the infected, respectively, before and after the virus mutation. is the ratio of the infected before the virus mutation to the infected after virus mutation in number. is the mortality rate of the infected after virus mutation. In addition, .
According to the biological significance of the model, it is assumed that all parameters are positive, and the dynamic behavior of population R does not affect other populations. Thus, the following model is considered:
Model (2) has a basic reproduction number , where
it also has a disease-free equilibrium
Moreover, when , model (2) has a boundary equilibrium point
where the disease will disappear before the virus mutation, and after the virus mutation it will spread; when and , both before and after the virus mutates, model (2) has an endemic disease balance point , where
On the other hand, environmental change has a key impact on the development of epidemics [9]. For disease transmission, because of the unpredictability of human contact, the growth and spread of epidemics are essentially random, so population numbers are constantly disturbed [10,11]. Therefore, in epidemic dynamics, stochastic differential equation models may be a more appropriate approach to modeling epidemics in many situations. Many real stochastic epidemic models can be derived based on their deterministic formulas [9,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23]. Assuming that the coefficients of model (2) are affected by random noise that can be represented by Brownian motion, model (2) becomes:
where represents the intensities of the white noises, and are mutually independent standard Brownian motions. However, the groups and are usually subject to the same random factors such as temperature, humidity, etc., in reality. As a result, it is more reasonable to assume that the five classes of random perturbance noises are uncorrelated. If we set , then model (3) becomes:
Let be a complete probability space with the filtration satisfying the usual condition (i.e., is increasing and right continuous whereas contains all -null sets). Throughout this paper, , and are denoted.
First, we prove the global existence and uniqueness of the positive solution of model (4). Similar to a deterministic model, we introduce a threshold value , able to be calculated from the coefficients. We show that if , will be extinct with probability 1, and will weakly converge to their unique invariant probability measures , respectively. If , then coexistence occurs, and all positive solutions of model (4) are converged to the unique variational probability measure in the total variational norm.
Most of the existing studies use the method of constructing the Lyapunov function to prove the existence of the stationary distribution of the solution of model (4). However, this method is not applicable to all models. In this paper, the definition method applicable to more models is used to prove the stationary distribution [24,25,26,27]. Moreover, most of the stochastic infectious disease models studied now are second order or third order. Therefore, in order to depict infectious diseases more accurately, we have established a fifth-order model–a double inoculation and random infectious disease model of spontaneous virus mutation, considering two kinds of vaccination for susceptible people on the basis of the research on infectious diseases of virus mutation.
The main structure of this paper is as follows: In Section 2 we prove the global existence and uniqueness of the positive solution of model (4). In Section 3 and Section 4, we are devoted to the proof of extinction and coexistence, respectively. In Section 5, we provide an example to support our findings. In Section 6, the main results are discussed and summarized briefly.
2. Existence and Uniqueness of the Global Solutions
Theorem 1.
For any given value , there is a unique solution to model (4) on and the solution will remain in with probability 1, i.e., in for all almost surely.
Proof of Theorem 1.
Since the coefficients of model (4) satisfy local Lipschitz and linear growth conditions, it can be seen from the existence and uniqueness theorem of solutions of stochastic differential equations that for any , model (4) has a locally unique solution . To prove the global nature of the solution, we only need to prove that , where is the explosion time.
Let be a sufficiently large positive number, so that for each , , , , , fall in the interval . For each integer , define the stop time as follows:
where . Obviously, when , increases monotonously.
Let , then . So we just have to prove . Supposing that , then there are constants and such that . Further, there is an integer that makes
Define function: by , where . Obviously, function is a non-negative function. If , according to formula, there is a positive number , so that
Integrate both sides of the above inequality from 0 to at the same time, we get
moreover, then we take the expectation, and obtain
Set for and by (5), we have . Noting that for every , there is or or or or , being equal to either k or , and hence
It then follows from (6) that
where is the indicator function of . Letting , we obtain the following contradiction:
So we must have a.s. This completes the proof of Theorem 1. □
3. Extinction of Disease
For the infectious disease model, we always care about whether the disease will disappear. In this section, we first define a threshold value , and the stochastic extinction of the disease when is then proved in the model (4).
To obtain further properties of the solution, we case on the boundary of the first equation of model (4):
so we have,
For the given initial value u, let be the solution to model (7). According to the comparison theorem, . By solving the Fokker–Planck equation, the process has unique stationary distribution with density , and by the strong law of large numbers, we have
For other equations of model (4), we use the same method to obtain:
we have
then similarly
therefore
where have the same definition as above.
To proceed, we define the threshold as follows:
where .
Theorem 2.
If , then for any initial value , a.s., and the distribution of , converge weakly to the unique invariant probability measures with the densities , respectively.
Proof of Theorem 2.
Considering a Lyapunov function , defined by . Applying formula to , we have
where .
Then integral from 0 to t at both ends of inequality
It finally follows from (11) by dividing t on the both sides and let that,
Hence, converges almost surely to 0 at an exponential rate.
For any , it follows from (12) that there exists such that where
- Case 1.
- converges weakly to the unique invariant probability measure with the density .
We can choose that satisfying . Let be the solution of (7). Supposing , then we can obtain by the comparison theorem. In view of the formula, for almost all we have
where . As a result, for any we have
Now let us make an equivalent statement, that is, the distribution of is weakly convergent to is equivalent to the distribution of is weakly convergent to . By the Portmanteau theorem, it is sufficient to prove that for any satisfying and , we have
Because the diffusion of model (4) is non-degenerate, the distribution of converges weakly to as . Therefore
such that
- Case 2.
- converges weakly to the unique invariant probability measure with the density .
Similar to Case 1, we can choose satisfying . Then, we can get
As a result, for any we have
then we have
Thus
such that
- Case 3.
- converges weakly to the unique invariant probability measure with the density .
The proof method is the same as above. Since is taken arbitrarily, we obtain the desired conclusion. The proof is completed. □
4. Stationary Distribution
Now we focus on the case . Let be the transition probability of . Because the diffusion of model (4) is degenerate, i.e., , we have to change the model to Stratonovich’s form in order to obtain properties of ,
where
Let
to proceed, we first recall the notion of Lie bracket. If and are two vector fields on then the Lie bracket is a vector field given by
where
Using to represent the Lie algebra generated by , and the ideal in generated by B. We have the following theorem.
Theorem 3.
The ideal in generated by satisfies dim at every . In other words, the set of vectors spans at every . As a result, the transition probability has smooth density .
Proof of Theorem 3.
Consequently,
which means that are linearly independent. As a result, span for all . Theorem 3 is proved. □
In view of the Hormander Theorem, the transition probability function has a density and . Now we check the kernel k is positive. A fixed point and a function , considering the following model of integral equations:
where
Let be the derivative of the function h. If for some the derivative has rank 5, then for , , , , and . The derivative can be found by means of the perturbation method for ODEs.
Namely, let
where is the Jacobian of and let , for , be a matrix function such that
and
then .
Theorem 4.
For any and , there exists such that .
Proof of Theorem 4.
First, we check that the rank of is 5. Let and . Since
we obtain
Directly calculated
where elements in matrices , and are shown in Appendix B.
Therefore, it follows that are linearly independent and the derivative has rank 5.
For any and suppose that and let .
We choose with . It is easy to check that with this control, there is such that
If ,we can construct similarly.
By choosing to be sufficiently large, for any , there is a such that . This property, combined with (20), implies the existence of a feedback control and satisfying that for any we have
This completes the proof. □
We construct a function satisfying that
for some petite set K and some . If there exists a measure with and the probability distribution is concentrated on so that for any
then set K is called to be petite with respect to the Markov chain . We must also prove that Markov chain is irreducible and aperiodic. The definitions and properties of irreducible sets, aperiodic sets, and small sets refer to [28] or [29]. The estimation of convergence rate is divided into the following theorems and propositions.
Theorem 5.
Let .There exists positive constants such that
Proof of Theorem 5.
Considering the Lyapunov function . By directly calculating the differential operator related to model (4), we obtain
By Young’s inequality, we have
For , define the stopping time , then formula and (23) yield that
By letting , we obtain from Fatou’s lemma that
The Theorem 5 is proved. □
Theorem 6.
For any and we have
where .
Proof of Theorem 6.
We have
where , thus
This implies that
taking expectation both sides and using the estimate above, we obtain
Similarly, we have
where . The Theorem 6 is proved. □
Choose satisfying
Choose H so large that
Theorem 7.
For and H chosen as above, there is and such that
for all .
Proof of Theorem 7.
Let be the solution with initial value to
Calculated,
In view of the strong law of large numbers for martingales, . Hence, there exists , such that
and
where . By the uniqueness of solutions to (26), we obtain
Observe also that
which we have from the comparison theorem. From (27)–(30) we can be show that with probability greater than , for all ,
The proof is completed. □
Proposition 1.
Assuming . Let , H so large and . There exists independent of , such that
for any .
Proof of Proposition 1.
First, considering , we have
where
In we have
thus for any ,
as a result,
which imply that
In , we have from Theorem 6 that
adding (31) and (32) side by side, we obtain
in view of (24) we deduce
Now, for and , we have form Theorem 6 that
Letting sufficiently large, such that ,, then the proof is completed. □
Proposition 2.
Assuming . There exist such that
for .
Proof of Proposition 2.
First, considering . Defined the stopping time
Let
By the exponential martingale inequality,
Let
If , we have
similarly,
If , therefore
Squaring and then multiplying by and then taking expectation both sides, we yield
If , then
similarly, , we have
as a result,
hence,
Let and . In view of Proposition and the strong Markov property, we can estimate the conditional expectation
We note that, if , then
therefore, it follows from Theorem 6 that
Let , for any ; , we have
The proof is completed. □
Theorem 8.
Let , there exists an invariant probability measure such that
- (a)
- ,
- (b)
- ,
where is the total variation norm, is any positive number and is the transition probability of .
Proof of Theorem 8.
By virtue of Theorem 7, there are satisfying
Applying (37) and Theorem 3.6 in [30], we obtain that
for some invariant probability measure the Markov chain , , , . Let , . It is shown in the proof of Theorem 3.6 in [30] that (37) implies . In view of [31], the Markov process , , , , has an invariant probability measure . As a result, is also an invariant probability measure of the Markov chain . In light of (38), we must have , then, is an invariant measure of the Markov process .
In the proofs, we use the function for the sake of simplicity. In fact, we can treat for any small in the same manner. For more details, we can refer to [24] or [25]. □
5. Numerical Examples
By using the Milstein method mentioned in Higham [32], model (4) can be rewritten as the following discretization equations:
where are Gaussian random variables. The following figures are drawn using MATLAB based on some numerical examples.
Example 1.
Consider (4) with parameters ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; . Directing calculations show that which satisfy the conditions in Theorem 8, then the disease is almost surely persistent (see Figure 1, Figure 2, Figure 3, Figure 4 and Figure 5). Furthermore, the histograms of the probability density function of ,,,,, for model (4) are shown in Figure 6, Figure 7, Figure 8, Figure 9 and Figure 10, where Figure 11 represents the phase diagram of , respectively.
Figure 1.
Sample path of S(t).
Figure 2.
Sample path of V1(t).
Figure 3.
Sample path of V2(t).
Figure 4.
Sample path of I1(t).
Figure 5.
Sample path of I2(t).
Figure 6.
Histogram of the probability density function of S(t).
Figure 7.
Histogram of the probability density function of V1(t).
Figure 8.
Histogram of the probability density function of V2(t).
Figure 9.
Histogram of the probability density function of I1(t).
Figure 10.
Histogram of the probability density function of I2(t).
Figure 11.
Phase portrait of model (4).
Example 2.
Let parameters ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; . Directing calculations show that , which satisfy the conditions in Theorem 2, then the disease is almost certainly extinct (see Figure 12 and Figure 13). In addition, , , are weakly convergent to the unique invariant probability measure (see Figure 14, Figure 15 and Figure 16).
Figure 12.
Sample path of I1(t).
Figure 13.
Sample path of I2(t).
Figure 14.
Sample path of S(t).
Figure 15.
Sample path of V1(t).
Figure 16.
Sample path of V2(t).
6. Conclusions and Discussion
The main purpose of this paper is to study the global existence and uniqueness of the solution of model (4) and the extinction and stationary distribution of the disease by introducing a threshold . If , the number of infected individuals tends to zero at an exponential rate, whereas the distribution of susceptible population , vaccinated of the first type and vaccinated of the second type converge weakly to the boundary distribution. On the other hand, if , the existence and uniqueness of the invariant probability measure and the convergence of the total variation norm of the transition probability to the invariant measure are obtained. In addition, the support of the invariant probability measure is described. Then, we obtain that the disease can almost certainly continue to exist, and there is an independent stable distribution. Finally, numerical simulation is carried out to verify our theoretical results.
In addition, most of the existing literature uses the method of constructing a Lyapunov function to prove the existence of stationary distribution of the solution of the random model (4). However, this approach does not work for all models. In this paper, the stationary distribution is proved using a definition that applies to more models. Most of the stochastic epidemic models studied so far are second-order or third-order models. However, as the disease progresses, the virus can mutate as it spreads, allowing the disease to spiral out of control. Therefore, in order to describe the infectious disease more accurately, considering the situation of two kinds of vaccinations for susceptible people, a fifth-order model was established–a class of virus mutation infectious disease model with double vaccinations. I sincerely hope that in the future we can build more complete models of infectious diseases to make greater progress.
Author Contributions
Formal analysis, H.C. and J.W.; funding acquisition, X.T.; software, W.Q. and W.L. All authors contributed equally and significantly in this paper. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.
Funding
This work is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 12261104, 12126363).
Data Availability Statement
Data sharing is not applicable to this article as no data sets were generated or analyzed during the current study.
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
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Appendix B
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