An Existence Theorem for a Nonlocal Global Pandemic Model for Insect-Borne Diseases
Author(s) -
John R. Can,
Daniel Joseph Galiffa
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
international journal of differential equations
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.324
H-Index - 20
eISSN - 1687-9651
pISSN - 1687-9643
DOI - 10.1155/2014/187685
Subject(s) - mathematics , uniqueness , ordinary differential equation , epidemic model , pandemic , mathematical analysis , boundary value problem , argument (complex analysis) , differential equation , mathematical economics , covid-19 , disease , medicine , population , biochemistry , chemistry , demography , pathology , sociology , infectious disease (medical specialty)
We construct and analyze a nonlocal global pandemic model that comprises a system of two nonlocal integrodifferential equations (functional differential equations) andan ordinary differential equation. This model was constructed by considering a spherical coordinate transformation of a previously established epidemiology model that can be applied to insect-bornediseases, like yellow fever. This transformation amounts to a nonlocal boundary value problem on the unit sphere and therefore can be interpreted as a global pandemic model for insect-borne diseases. We ultimately show that a weak solution to the weak formulation of this model exists using a fixed point argument, which calls upon the construction of a weak formulation and the existenceand uniqueness of an auxiliary problem
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