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J. Orestes Cerdeira

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arXiv2025

Group centrality in optimal and suboptimal vaccination for epidemic models in contact networks

The pursuit of strategies that minimize the number of individuals needing vaccination to control an outbreak is a well-established area of study in mathematical epidemiology. However, for certain diseases, public policy tends to prioritize immunizing vulnerable individuals over epidemic control. As a result, optimal vaccination strategies may not always be effective in supporting real-world public policies. A similar situation happens when a new vaccine is introduced and is in short supply, as target priority groups for vaccination have to be defined. In this work, we focus on a disease that results in long-term immunity and spreads through a heterogeneous population, represented by a contact network. We study four well-known group centrality measures and show that the GED-Walk offers a reliable means of estimating the impact of vaccinating specific groups of individuals, even in suboptimal cases. Additionally, we depart from the search for target individuals to be vaccinated and provide proxies for identifying optimal groups for vaccination. While the GED-Walk is the most useful centrality measure for suboptimal cases, the betweenness (a related, but different centrality measure) stands out when looking for optimal groups. This indicates that optimal vaccination is not concerned with breaking the largest number of transmission routes, but interrupting geodesic ones.

q-bio.PE↗

arXiv2015

Injective Edge Chromatic Index of a Graph

Three edges $e_{1}, e_{2}$ and $e_{3}$ in a graph $G$ are consecutive if they form a path (in this order) or a cycle of length three. An injective edge coloring of a graph $G = (V,E)$ is a coloring $c$ of the edges of $G$ such that if $e_{1}, e_{2}$ and $e_{3}$ are consecutive edges in $G$, then $c(e_{1})\neq c(e_3)$. The injective edge coloring number $χ_{i}^{'}(G)$ is the minimum number of colors permitted in such a coloring. In this paper, exact values of $χ_{i}^{'}(G)$ for several classes of graphs are obtained, upper and lower bounds for $χ_{i}^{'}(G)$ are introduced and it is proven that checking whether $χ_{i}^{'}(G)= k$ is NP-complete.

math.CO↗

arXiv2003

A note on mixed graphs and matroids

A mixed graph is a graph with some directed edges and some undirected edges. We introduce the notion of mixed matroids as a generalization of mixed graphs. A mixed matroid can be viewed as an oriented matroid in which the signs over a fixed subset of the ground set have been forgotten. We extend to mixed matroids standard definitions from oriented matroids, establish basic properties, and study questions regarding the reorientations of the unsigned elements. In particular we address in the context of mixed matroids the P-connectivity and P-orientability issues which have been recently introduced for mixed graphs.

math.CO↗