A class of Lyapunov functions and the global stability of some epidemic models with nonlinear incidence

Journal of Applied Analysis and Computation

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 38-46

  Li, Jianquan ^a   Yang, Yali ^a,b,c   Xiao, Yanni ^d   Liu, Shuo ^e  

^a AIR FORCE ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHAANXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Epidemic model; Equilibrium; Global stability; Lyapunov function; Nonlinear incidence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84969142744     PISSN: 2156907X     EISSN: 21585644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11948/2016004     Document Type: Article

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