Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme, N?thnitzer Stra?e 38, 01187 Dresden, Germany, DE CATS, The Niels Bohr Institute, Blegdamsvej 17, 2100 Copenhagen ?, Denmark, DK
Abstract:
We introduce a model for the spreading of epidemics by long-range infections and investigate the critical behaviour at the
spreading transition. The model generalizes directed bond percolation and is characterized by a probability distribution for
long-range infections which decays in d spatial dimensions as . Extensive numerical simulations are performed in order to determine the density exponent and the correlation length exponents and for various values of . We observe that these exponents vary continuously with , in agreement with recent field-theoretic predictions. We also study a model for pairwise annihilation of particles with
algebraically distributed long-range interactions.
Received: 4 September 1998 / Accepted: 22 September 1998