The stationary distribution of a stochastic rumor spreading model

Abstract

In this paper, we develop a rumor spreading model by introducing white noise into the model. We establish sufficient conditions for the existence and uniqueness of an ergodic stationary distribution of the positive solutions to the stochastic model by constructing a suitable stochastic Lyapunov function, which provides us a good description of persistence. Finally, we provide some numerical simulations to illustrate the analytical results.

Keywords

• rumor spreading
• stationary distribution
• threshold