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. 2023 May 16;142(2):181–198. doi: 10.1007/s12064-023-00392-2

Stationary distribution and density function analysis of SVIS epidemic model with saturated incidence and vaccination under stochastic environments

Prasenjit Mahato 1,, Sanat Kumar Mahato 1, Subhashis Das 1, Partha Karmakar 2
PMCID: PMC10187527  PMID: 37191878

Abstract

In this article, we study the dynamical properties of susceptible-vaccinated-infected-susceptible (SVIS) epidemic system with saturated incidence rate and vaccination strategies. By constructing the suitable Lyapunov function, we examine the existence and uniqueness of the stochastic system. With the help of Khas’minskii theory, we set up a critical value Rs with respect to the basic reproduction number R of the deterministic system. A unique ergodic stationary distribution is investigated under the condition of Rs>1. In the epidemiological study, the ergodic stationary distribution represents that the disease will persist for long-term behavior. We focus for developing the general three-dimensional Fokker–Planck equation using appropriate solving theories. Around the quasi-endemic equilibrium, the probability density function of the stochastic system is analyzed which is the main theme of our study. Under Rs>1, both the existence of ergodic stationary distribution and density function can elicit all the dynamical behavior of the disease persistence. The condition of disease extinction of the system is derived. For supporting theoretical study, we discuss the numerical results and the sensitivities of the biological parameters. Results and conclusions are highlighted.

Keywords: Stochastic SVIS epidemic model, Ergodic stationary distribution, Fokker–Planck equation, Density function analysis, Extinction

Introduction

Recently, global social economics and human health are greatly affected by the infectious disease. The awareness has been increased for preventing and to control the world-wide spreading of COVID-19. Mathematical model is one of the most important tools to describe the behavior of the epidemic in epidemiology. Kermack and Mckendric (1927) investigated a susceptible-infected-susceptible (SIS) model and discussed its dynamical properties. The transmissions of various epidemics (Liu et al. 2008; Li et al. 2017, 2001; Jerubet and Kimathi 2019; Hove-Musekwa and Nyabadza 2009; Iwami et al. 2007; Cai and Wu 2009; Vincenzo and Gabriella 1978; Carter et al. 2020; Mahato et al. 2021; Das et al. 2021) were developed with realistic ordinary differential equation. (Kuniya and Wang 2018) established a susceptible-infected-recovered (SIR) epidemic model. They studied the existence of the global stability of disease-free equilibrium for basic reproduction number R0<1 and investigated the uniform persistence of the system under R0>1. (Naik et al. 2020a) formulated a SIR epidemic model with Crowley–Martin incidence rate and Holling type–II treatment. With the help of La-Salle invariance principle and the Lyapunov function, they examined the existence and stability of both equilibrium points. A nonlinear fractional infectious disease model in HIV transmission was discussed by Naik et al. (2020b). A SIRS epidemic model with mixed vaccination strategies was established by Gao et al. (2011). They added the seasonal variability on infection in their study. A SVIR (Susceptible-Vaccinated-Infected-Recovered) epidemic model was studied by Liu et al. (2008). They discussed the vaccine strategies for controlling the disease. Xing and Li (2021) established a SVIR epidemic model with relapse and investigated the persistence of the epidemic. Lee and Lao (2018) described an epidemic model with bilinear incidence rate and investigated the transmission dynamics of the disease.

Environmental variations (Liu et al. 2018; Cai and Kang 2015) may perturb the travel of population, design of control strategies. Many researchers formulated the stochastic differential equation for epidemic and analyzed their dynamical behavior. A stochastic SIS epidemic model with vaccination was studied by Zhao and Jiang (2014). The theory of extinction and persist in mean of the epidemic was investigated in their work. In Caraballo et al. (2020), Carballo et al. formulated a stochastic SIRS epidemic model and discussed the condition of stationary distribution. The existence of ergodic stationary distribution and the probability density function of the SVIS epidemic model were studied by Zhou et al. (2020). Zhou et al. (2021) solved the general three-dimensional Fokker–Planck equation. The existence of stationary distribution and ergodicity of the system has been discussed. They have studied the impact of random noises on the disease extinction.

Concentration in the vaccination on infected individuals and random oscillation, the main theme of our study is to improve SIVS epidemic model in stochastic nature with vaccination strategies. The disease which will be persistent depends on the corresponding basic reproduction number of the system. There is no positive equilibrium exists in the stochastic system for the environmental fluctuation. So, the stochastic permanence of the epidemic can be greatly affected by the existence of a stationary distribution and the properties of ergodicity. For controlling the outbreak of epidemic, we must need for statistical data of the disease in our real life. For difficulties to solve the higher-order Fokker–Planck equations, we have analyzed the probability density function. In this work, some studies of probability density function of stationary distribution are discussed. For this, we focus for three points.

  • (i)

    Comprise stochastic threshold RS with respect to the basic reproduction number R.

  • (ii)

    Look into the persistence of the disease of stochastic SVIS system under the condition of RS>1.

  • (iii)

    Discuss the numerical simulation and the sensitivities of the ecological parameters of the system get a clear view of our study.

This work is represented as follows: Sect. "Model calibration and dynamical behavior:" presents model formulation and necessary notation for the model. Sect. "Persistence and extinction of the system" introduces the persistence and the extinction of the stochastic system. The ergodic stationary distribution under RS>1 is investigated in the subsection of 3. Sect. "Numerical results:" shows some numerical results and Sect. "Sensitivities of the parameters:" represents the sensitivities of the parameters. Finally, results are discussed and conclusions are drawn in Sect. "Discussion of results."

Model calibration and dynamical behavior

In this section, the deterministic and stochastic SVIS epidemic models are developed after considering some suitable conditions.

Deterministic SVIS epidemic system

Suppose, N(t) is the total investigated population. This population is divided into susceptible St, vaccinated Vt, infected I(t) populations at any instant t. In this study, the susceptible individuals obey the rule of logistic growth model which is the growth process of species in natural way (Jiang et al. 2007; Arino et al. 2006; Xu et al. 2015). We formulate a deterministic SVIS epidemic system (Zhou et al. 2020, 2021) with saturated incidence and vaccination strategies, which is given as

dStdt=pSt1-Stq-λStIt1+k1It-ψSt-α1St+β2It+β1Vt
dVtdt=α1St-β1+ψVt
dItdt=λStIt1+k1It-ψ+α2+β2It 1

where p,q,λ,k1,ψ,α1,β2,β1 and α2 are all positive constants. The parameter p is the intrinsic growth rate of susceptible individuals, and q depicts the carrying capacity of St. The term λStIt1+k1It is more sensitive than the bilinear incidence rate in epidemiological study (Zhu et al. 2020; Xu et al. 2016; Batabyal and Batabyal 2021; Chong et al. 2014). Here, λ denotes the disease transmission rate between susceptible and infected individuals, and k1 is the half-saturation constant. The parameters ψ and α1 represent the natural mortality rate of all individuals and vaccination rate of susceptible individuals, respectively. The disease-related death rate of the infected individuals is represented by α2. The immunity loss coefficient of the vaccinated individuals and the recovery rate of the infected individuals are depicted by the parameters β1 and β2, respectively. Ecological description of the parameters and its units are shown in Appendix 1.

The disease-free equilibrium point of the system is given by

E#=S#,V#,I#=qpp-ψ-α1β1+ψ+β1α1β1+ψ,α1(β1+ψ)qpp-ψ-α1β1+ψ+β1α1β1+ψ,0.

Now, we compute the basic reproduction number (Driessche and Watmough 2002) of the deterministic system.

R=λqp-ψ-α1β1+ψ+β1α1p(β1+ψ)ψ+α2+β2 (see Appendix 2). Actually, the basic reproduction number R can be defined as the number of new infections started from infective individuals at disease-free equilibrium. R<1 indicates infected population creates less than one new infected population at time of its infective situation and the disease becomes extinct. In other way, R>1 represents that each infected populations create more than one new infection, and then, the infection can spread over the population.

For the endemic equilibrium point of the system (1), we obtain.

E@=S@,V@,I@ and S@=(β1+ψ)V@α1, I@=1ψ+α2(β1+ψ)α1p1-k1q-ψ+α1+β1V@. where V@ is the root of the following equation

E1V@2+E2V@+E3=0 and E1=ψ+α2+β2pα1ψ+α2q, E2=λα(β1+ψ)-pψ+α2+β2α1ψ+α2β1+ψ,

E3=ψ+α2+β2(β1+ψ)2.

Stochastic SVIS epidemic system

In real life, the dynamical properties of the maximum epidemiological model are greatly influenced by random perturbation in the environments. With the help of relevant study (Cai and Kang 2015; Zhao and Jiang 2014; Khan and Khan 2018; Zhang 2017; Caraballo et al. 2020; Wang and Jiang 2019; Wang and Wang 2018; Liu et al. 2019a; Zhou et al. 2020), we consider the stochastic perturbations are directly proportional to St,Vt, It. Stochastic perturbations are influenced by multiplicative noises. These multiplicative noises are considered for describing the non-equilibrium systems to better understand the fluctuations which are not self-originating. So, the corresponding stochastic SVIS epidemic system with vaccination strategies is formulated by

dSt=pSt1-Stq-λStIt1+k1It-ψSt-α1St+β2It+β1Vtdt+τ1SdG1t
dVt=α1St-β1+ψVtdt+τ2VdG2t
dIt=λStIt1+k1It-ψ+α2+β2Itdt+τ3IdG3t 2

Here, Giti=1,2,3 are the independent standard Brownian motions and τii=1,2,3 are their intensities.

Existence and uniqueness

Now, we have investigated the existence and uniqueness of the solutions.

Theorem 1

The solutions St,Vt,ItR3+ of the stochastic system (2) are unique and exist in the region R3+ for the initial values S0,I0,V0R3+.

Proof

The coefficients of the system (2) are locally Lipschitz continuous as reported by of Mao et al. (Mao 1997). St,Vt,ItR3+,t0,σ0 is the solution of the system (2) for the initial values S0,I0,V0R3+. σ0 depicts the explosion time. For proving the global solution, we must prove σ0= a.s. The stopping time is satisfied the following conditions.

σn=inf{0<t<σ0:minSt,Vt,It1δ or max St,Vt,Itδ}.where, S0,I0,V01δ0,δ0 and δδ0.

We also assume the set inf{Φ} = , when n then σn is increasing. Thus, we get σ=limnσn. If we show that σ= almost surely, then σ0= almost surely. This implies that St,Vt,ItR3+ almost surely for t0. When σ<, then there exist two positive constants M and ε such that PσM>ε. Again, we define.

PσnMε for any integer δ1δ0.

Let us assume a fundamental function F:^R3+R such that F^S,V,I=S-InS-1+V-InV-1+I-1-InI. As w>0, then w-1-Inw0. Thus F^S,V,I is non-negative C2 function.

Using It o^’s formula, we obtain

dF^S,V,I=LF^S,V,Idt+τ1S-1dG1t+τ2V-1dG2t+τ3I-1dG3t

where LF^S,V,I=1-1SpS1-Sq-λSI1+k1I-ψS-α1S+β2I+β1V+τ122+1-1Vα1S-β1+ψV+τ222+1-1IλSI1+k1I-ψ+α2+β2I+τ322

p+3ψ+α1+α2+β1+β2+τ12+τ22+τ322-p1-Sq+λI1+k1I
p+3ψ+α1+α2+β1+β2+τ12+τ22+τ322H^.

Therefore, we get. dF^S,V,IH^dt+τ1S-1dG1t+τ2V-1dG2t+τ3I-1dG3t.

We integrate both sides with respect to limit runs from 0 to σnM and take expectation,

EF^SσnM,VσnM,IσnMH^EσnM+F^S0,V0,I0H^M+F^S0,V0,I0.

Let us consider Ωm=σnM. for mm1., then PΩmε..

For every ηΩm, such that Sσn,η,Vσn,η,Iσn,η is equal to 1m or m.

So, F^Sσm,η,Vσm,η,Iσm,η is not less than either m-1-lnm or 1m-1+lnm.

H^M+F^S0,V0,I0E[TΩm(η)F^Sσm,η,Vσm,η,Iσm,η]
εm-1-lnm1m-1+lnm

Here, TΩm represents the indicator function of Ωm. Applying m both sides, that gives a contradiction

=H^M+F^S0,V0,I0<.

This gives us σ= a.s. Hence, the proof is completed.

Persistence and extinction of the system

In this section, we have discussed the persistence and the extinction of the system. For this purpose, we define that the stochastic reproductive ratio of the system (2) is RS=λqα1β1+β1+ψp-ψ-α1p+τ122β1+ψ+τ222ψ+α2+β2+τ322.

Stationary Distribution and ergodic property of the Stochastic System

Since the stochastic system (2) has no endemic equilibrium point, we examine the ergodic stationary distribution that represents the persistence of the disease. Now, we study some important lemma of the theory of Khas’minskii (Khas’miniskii RZ 1980).

Let us assume a stochastic differential equation

dYt=gydt+k=1nhkydGkt

where Yt is a homogeneous Markov process in d-dimensional Euclidean space γd. The diffusion matrix is BY=bijy; and bijy=l=1nhliyhljy.

Lemma 1

Zhou et al. 2021; Khas’miniskii RZ 1980): The Markov process Yt has a unique ergodic stationary distribution π. for any bounded region R with boundary π and.

  • (i)

    There is a non-negative integer N such that i,j=1dbijyκiκjNk2, yR,κRd.

  • (ii)

    There is a non-negative C2 function FYt such that LFYt is negative for yΩR\R. Then, for all yRd and integral function χ. with respect to the measure χ., it follows that

Plimq1q0qχ(yt)=χyπdy=1.

Theorem 2

The stochastic system (2) has ergodic property and a unique stationary distribution π. for the initial value S0,V0,I0R3+ and RS>1.

Proof

In the previous theorem, we prove the unique global positive solution for the initial values S0,V0,I0R3+. For proving this theorem, we only verify Lemma 1.

We choose a C2 function Z such that

ZS,V,I=N0S+V+I-b1lnS-b1b2lnV-b3lnI-lnS-lnV+S+V+I

where b1,b2,b3 all are positive constants and N0=p1-Sq+2ψ+β1+α1+τ12+τ222+23pRS3-11-Sq>0.

From above expression, we have

-3N0p1-SqRS3-1+p1-Sq+2ψ+β1+α1+τ12+τ222=-2

For simplification,

Z1=S+V+I-b1lnS-b1b2lnV-b3lnI
Z2=-lnS-lnV;Z3=S+V+I

Using It o^ s formula to Z1 (see Appendix 3) we derive

LZ1=p1-Sq-ψS+V+I-α2I-b1p1-Sq-λI1+k1I+β2IS+β1VS-ψ+α1+τ122-b1b2α1SV-β1+ψ+τ222-b3λS1+k1I-ψ+α2+β2+τ322
p1-Sq-ψN+b1p1-Sq+b3λS1+k1I+b1ψ+α1+τ122+b3ψ+α2+β2+τ322-b1β2IS+b1b2Vα1S+b1b2β1+ψ+τ222+b1λI1+k1I
p1-Sq-3λb1b3p1-Sq13-2(b12b2β1ψ)1/2+b1ψ+α1+τ122+b3ψ+α2+β2+τ322+b1λI1+k1I

where b1,b2,b3 represents

b2ψ+α1+τ122=λα1,
b1ψ+α2+β2+τ322-λα1ψ+α1+τ122=b3ψ+α2+β2+τ322=p1-Sq

Above expressions imply the following values.b1=λα1ψ+α2+τ2222,b2=p1-Sqψ+α1+τ122-λα1ψ+α1+τ222 and b3=p1-Sqψ+α2+β2+τ322

Therefore,

LZ13p1-Sq-3p1-SqRS1/3+b1λI1+k1I 3

Next, we use It o^s formula on Z2 and Z3. We obtain

LZ2=-p1-Sq+ψ+α1+τ122+λI1+k1I-β1VS-β2IS-α1SV+ψ+α1+τ122
-p1-Sq-β1VS-β2IS+2ψ+α1+τ12+τ222 4
LZ3=p1-Sq-ψS+I-ψ+α2p1-Sq-ψN-α1SV 5

Since ZS,V,I is continuous function,

limt+infZS,V,I=,S,V,IR+3\Eμ.

Now, we obtain.

QS,V,I=ZS,V,I-Z0, where Z0 is minimum value of Z1 and QS,V,IR+3.

Using (2, 3, 4, 5), we get

LQ-3N0p1-SqRS13-1+p1-Sq-α1SV+λI1+k1I+p1-Sq+2ψ+α1+τ12+τ222-ψN
=-2+b1N0+1λIN-p1-Sq-α1SV-ψN 6

We define a compact subset Eμ=S,V,IR+3:Sμ;Vμ2;Iμ3;S+V+I1μ.

Here, μ is a small positive constant which satisfy the condition

-2+b1N0+1λ-minψ,α1,pμ-1 7
-2+b1N0+1λμ-1 8

Using the following subsets of R+3\Eμ

E1,μc=S,V,IR+3:S<μ;E2,μc=S,V,IR+3:V<μ2,Sμ
E3,μc={S,V,IR+3:I<μ3,Vμ2};E4,μc={S,V,IR+3:S+V+I>1μ}

Therefore, LQ-1, where S,V,IEi,μi=1,2,3,4.

  • (i)
    When S,V,IE1,μ then we get from (6) & (7)
    LQ-2+b1N0+1λ-α1SV-2+b1N0+1λ-p1-Sq-1
  • (ii)
    When S,V,IE2,μ then we get from (6) & (7)
    LQ-2+b1N0+1λ-minψ,α1,pμ-1
  • (iii)
    When S,V,IE3,μ then we get from (6) & (7)
    LQ-2+b1N0+1λIV-2+b1N0+1λμ-1
  • (iv)
    When S,V,IE4,μ then we get from (6) & (8)
    LQ-2+b1N0+1λ-ψN-2+b1N0+1λ-minψ,α1,pμ-1

So, LQ-1, for all S,V,IR+3\Eμ=E1,μE2,μE3,μE4,μ.

Therefore, the condition (i) of Lemma 1 holds. The corresponding diffusion matrix is given by.

L=τ12S2000τ22V2000τ32I2.

Here, τ12S2>0,τ22V2>0,τ32I2>0, so L is positive definite matrix. Then, the condition (ii) of Lemma 1 also holds. Therefore, the global positive solution St,Vt,It of the system (2) satisfies a unique ergodic stationary distribution π·. This completes the proof of Theorem (2).

Density function analysis

In this portion, we have to obtain the probability density function of the stochastic model (2). For this purpose, we apply logarithmic transformation and equilibrium offset transformation.

Let us assume that g1=lnS,g2=lnV,g3=lnI. Using It o^ s formula in the system (2), we derive

dg1=p1-eg1q-λeg31+k1eg3-ψ+α1+τ122+β2eg3eg1
dg2=α1eg1eg2-β1+ψ+τ222
dg3=λeg11+k1eg3-ψ+α2+β2+τ322 9

For considering random effect, we have a critical value

R0c=λqα1β1+β1+ψ+τ222p-ψ-α1-τ322pβ1+ψ+τ222ψ+α2+β2+τ322

If R0c>1, the equation.fx=E1V2+E2V+E3 has unique positive root V+. where E1=ψ+α2+β2pα2ψ+α2q>0;E2=λα1β1+ψ-pψ+α2+β2α1β1+ψψ+α2>0;E3=ψ+α2+β2β1+ψ2>0

Clearly, S+,V+,I+=eg1,eg2,eg3 are same with the endemic equilibrium point E@=S@,V@,I@ of the system (2).

Now, we choose h1,h2,h3=g1-g1,g2-g2,g3-g3 such that g1=lnS+,g2=lnV+,g3=lnI+. The system (9) can be represented as linear form,

dg1=-b11h1-b12h2-b13h3dt+τ1dG1t
dg2=b21h1-b21h2dt+τ2dG2t
dg3=b31h1-b32h2dt+τ3dG3t 10

where b11=pqeg1, b12=λeg31+k1eg32,b13=ψ+α1,b21=β1+ψ, b31=λeg11+k1eg3, b32=ψ+α2+β2. It is obvious that b11>0, b12>0,b13>0,b21>0,b31>0, b32>0.

Theorem 3

When R0C>1, then there exists a local normal density function Th1,h2,h3 at the quasi-stationary state S+,V+,I+ with the initial value h10,h20,h30 which satisfy the following condition.

Th1,h2,h3=2π-32ρ-12e-12h1,h2,h3ρ-1h1,h2,h3T

where ρ can be written as following way, and ρ is a positive definite matrix. If ΛV+, then

ρ=r12N1L1-1ρ0N1L1-1T+r22N2L2-1ρ0N2L2-1+
r32N3Q3L3-1ρ0N3Q3L3-1T

If Λ=V+, then

ρ=r12N1L1-1ρ0N1L1-1T+r22N2L2-1ρ0N2L2-1+r3u2N3uQ3L3-1ξ0N3uQ3L3-1]T

where Λ=ψ+τ222k1-ψ+τ122k1ψ+τ122+k1-ψ-τ222,u=b21b11-b21b13,r1=-b21b31τ1, r2=-b13b32τ2,r3=-b21b11-b22τ3, r3u=-b13τ3,

ρ0=B22B1B2-B30-12B1B2-B3012B1B2-B30-12B1B2-B30B12B3B1B2-B3,ξ0=12d100012d1d20000

B1=b11+b21+b32, B2=b21b11-b12+b32+b11b13b32+b32, B3=b21b32(b11-b12-b32),d1=b11+b21,d2=b21b11-b12-b32

N3=-b32u-b11+b21ub2120u-b21001,N3u=-b13-b1100u0001,Q3=1000100-b21b311
L1=000100010,L3=000100010,N1=-b21b31b21b22+b31b212+b21b320-b23-b21001
N2=-b13b32b13b11+b32b112+b13b310-b13-b11001

Lemma 2

(Zhou et al. 2020, 2021) Let us consider the equation H02+B0ρ0+ρ0B0T=0, with H0= diag 1,0,0, B0=-B1-B2-B3100010. If B1>0,B2>0 and B1B2-B3>0 then matrix ρ0 have all positive eigen values. Here, B0 is the standard R1 matrix and B1,B2,B3 are the coefficients of the characteristic polynomial x3+B1x2+B2x+B3 of B0.

Lemma 3

(Zhou et al. 2020, 2021) Let us consider the equation H02+C0ξ0+ξ0C0T=0. Here, H0= diag 1,0,0,

C0=-d1-d2-d310000d33

If d1>0 and d2>0 then ξ0 is semi-positive. Here, d1-d33,d2-d1d33 and -d2d33 are the coefficient of the polynomial x3+d1-d33x2+(d2-d1d33)x+-d2d33 of C0. Here, C0 represents standard R2 matrix.

Proof of Theorem

From the system of equation of (10), we construct.

X=h1,h2,h3T, Y= diag τ1,τ2,τ3. The system becomes.dX=BXdt+YdBt where B=-b110-b130-b22-b23b31b32-b33.

The Fokker–Plank equation is given by

-j=13τj222hj2T+h1-b11h1-b13h3T+h2-b21h2-b23h3T+h3(b31h1+b32h2-b32h3T]=0. 11

The above three dimension Fokker–Plank equation approximates the density function TX=Th1,h2,h3 with help of (Roozen 1989) research work.

Eq. (11) can be approximated with the help of Gaussian distribution

TX=cexp-12X-XθX-XT 12

Here, X=0,0,0 and the real symmetric matrix θ satisfies the equation.

θY2θ+BTθ+θB=0. If all the eigenvalues of θ are positive and θ-1=ρ, we obtain

Y2+Bρ+ρBT=0 13

Equation (13) is equivalent to the equation

Yj2+Bρj+ρjBT=0,j=1,2,3

where Y1= diag τ1,0,0, Y2= diag 0,τ2,0, Y3= diag 0,0,τ3

ρj=ρ1+ρ2+ρ3

Yj2=Y12+Y22+Y32.

Now, we choose a polynomial of B such that

ψBx=x3+b1x2+b2x+b3

where b1=b11+b21+b32>0, b2=b11b21+b32+b21b32+b12b32+b13b31>0, b3=b21b32b11-b12-b13>0.

Applying the theory of matrix similar transformation ψBx is similarly invariant.

For solving Eq. (13), we have followed some steps.

For step 1

We choose the algebraic equation

Y12+Bρ1+ρ1BT=0 14

where Y1= diag τ1,0,0

Let, B1=J1BJ1T, J1=100001010 then, B1=-b11-b130b31-b3200-b21-b21.

C1=N1B1N1-1, where N1=-b21b31b21b21+b33b212+b21b320-b21-b32001.

With the help of uniqueness of standard R1 matrix of B, we derive.

B=-b1-b2-b3100010.

Then, we obtain b1b2-b3=b21+b32b11b21+b32+b21b32+b11+b32b13b31]>0.

From Eq. (14), it can be seen that

(N1J1)Y12(N1J1)T+(N1J1)B(N1J1)-1(N1J1)ρ1(N1J1)T+(N1J1)ρ1(N1J1)T(N1J1B(N1J1)-1]T=0.

This gives Y02+C1ρ0+ρ0C1T=0. where ρ0=(N1J1)ρ1(N1J1)Tr12, r1=-b32b31τ1 and ρ0=b22b1b2-b30-12b1b2-b3012b1b2-b30-12b1b2-b30b12b3b1b2-b3.

Hence, ρ1=r12(N1J1)-1ρ0(N1J1)-1T has positive eigen value, i.e., positive definite.

For step 2

Let us consider the equation beY22+Bρ2+ρ2BT=0 15

where Y2= diag 0,τ2,0, B2=J2BJ2-1 and J2=010001100.

Thus, the matrix B2 can be represented into the following form.

B2=-b21-b320b32-b32b310-b13-b11.

Again, C2=N2B2N2-1 and N2=-b13b32b13b11+b32b112+b13b310-b13-b11001.

Here, C2 is standard R1 matrix and C2=C1.

Equation (15) is transformed into the following form

N2J2Y22N2J2T+N2J2B(N2J2)-1(N2J2)ρ2(N2J2)T+(N2J2)ρ2(N2J2)TN2J2B(N2J2)-1T=0

This gives us Y02+C2ρ0+ρ0C2T=0.

All the eigen values of the matrix ρ0 are positive and ρ2=r22(N2J2)-1ρ0[(N2J2)-1]T is positive definite.

For step 3

Consider the equation

Y32+Bρ3+ρ3BT=0 16

where Y3= diag 0,0,τ3, B3=J3BJ3T and J3=001100010.

Therefore, we obtain Y3=-b32b31b32-b31-b110-b210-b21.

Using the transformation C3=N3B3N3-1, where N3=1000100-b21b131, We derive C3=-b32b13+b11+b21b32b13b32-b13-b1100b21b11-b21b13-b21.

Case-1

When U=b21b11-b21b130 and Λ0, from step (1) and step (2),we obtain D3=N3C3N3-1,N3=-b13U-b11+b21Ub2120U-b21001.

Transforming Eq. (15), it can be seen that.

Y02+D3ρ0+ρ0D3T=0,where ρ0=(N3D3J3)ρ3(N3D3J3)Tr32 and r3=-b21b11-b21τ3.

Therefore, the matrix ρ3 has positive eigenvalues.

Case-2: If U=b21b11-b21b13=0, Λ=0 and D3U=N3UC3N3U-1, then the transformation matrix is given by N3U=-b13-b110010001.

The matrix D3U is represented by -C1-C2-C310000-b11.

With the help of similarity invariant of the characteristic polynomial of B is

ΦBx=x3+b1x2+b2x+b3=ΦD3Ux=x3+C1+b11x2+C2+C1b11x+C2b11.

Above expression gives us,

C1=b1-b11=b21+b32>0
C2=b2-C1b11=b21b32+b21b12+b13b31>0.

Transforming Eq. (16), we get

Y02+D3UW0+W0D3UT=0

where W0=(N3UD3J3)ρ3(N3UD3J3)Tr3u2, N3U=-b13τ3.

Hence, W0 is semi-positive definite and W0=12C100012C1C20000.

Therefore, ρ3=r3U2(N3UD3J3)-1W0(N3UD3J3)-1T.

Now, ρ=ρ1+ρ2+ρ3 becomes real symmetric matrix, and hence, Eq. (13) represents the positive definite matrix.

The proof is completed.

Remark

Theorem 3 shows that there is local and exact probability density function around the quasi-stationary state S+,V+,I+ if R0c>1, we easily obtain R0c<RS. In addition RS=R0c=R while τi=0i=1,2,3. This means that the disease persistence is critically affected by the random fluctuation of the susceptible and infected individuals.

Extinction of the stochastic system

In this section, we discuss the suitable condition for the extinction of the system (2).

Theorem 4

Let, the solutions St,Vt,It of the system (2) with initial values S0,V0,I0R+3, the epidemic will be eradicated for the long run if R0=λψ+α2+β2+τ322<1 and limtsuplnIttψ+α2+β2+τ322R0-1<0 a.s.

Proof

Applying It o^’s formula in InIt, we obtain

d lnIt=λSt1+k1It-ψ+α2+β2+τ322dt+τ3dG3t 17

By integrating both sides and limiting runs from 0 to t1, we can get

lnIttlnI0t+1t0t1λSn1+k1In-ψ+α2+β2+τ322dn+0t1τ3dG3tt
lnI0t+1tλ-ψ+α2+β2+τ322dn+0t1τ3dG3tt
=lnI0t+ψ+α2+β2+τ322R0-1+0t1τ3dG3tt 18

With the help of Strong law of large number (Lipster 1980), we derive

limt0t1τ3dG3tt=0a.s. 19

Using (19) and applying the superior limit of t, we get R0RS.

Hence, the proof is completed.

Numerical results

In this section, applying the higher-order method improved by Milstein (Higham 2001) we have the following discretization equation of the system (2)

Sω+1=Sω+pSω1-Sωq-λSωIω1+k1Iω-ψSω-α1Sω+β2Iω+β1VωΔt+τ122Sωη1ω2-1Δt+τ1SωΔtη1ω
Vω+1=Vω+α1Sω-β1+ψVωΔt+τ222Vωη2ω2-1Δt+τ2VωΔtη2ω
Iω+1=Iω+λSωIω1+k1Iω-ψ+α2+β2IωΔt+τ322Iωη3ω2-1Δt+τ3IωΔtη3ω 20

where Δt>0 represents the time increment, and the independent Gaussian random variables are indicated by the variables η1ω,η2ω and η3ω. Here, all the random variables follow the distribution N0,1 for ω=1,2,,n.

Result 1

We choose the environmental noise intensities τ1,τ2,τ3=0.08,0.02,0.01 and the other parameters are p,q,λ,k1,ψ,α1,α2,β1,β2=2,50,0.9,0.65,0.02,0.9,0.03,0.2,0.05. We can obtain.

R=λqp-ψ-α1β1+ψ+β1α1p(β1+ψ)ψ+α2+β2>1 and RS=λqα1β1+β1+ψp-ψ-α1p+τ122β1+ψ+τ222ψ+α2+β2+τ322>1.

If R>1 and RS>1 satisfies then Theorem 2 represents unique ergodic stationary distribution π.. From Theorem 3, we have a unique log-normal density function around the quasi-endemic equilibrium E@.

Result 2

We choose the environmental noise intensities τ1,τ2,τ3=0.08,0.02,0.01 and the other parameters are.

p,q,λ,k1,ψ,α1,α2,β1,β2=2,50,0.00009,0.65,0.02,0.9,0.03,0.2,0.05. We derive.

R0=λψ+α2+β2+τ322=0.00899<1 and limtsuplnIttψ+α2+β2+τ322R0-1=-0.0995<0. It follows that Theorem 4 is verified and the epidemic will be eradicated for long run (Fig. 1). Figure 2 depicts the extinction of the system (2) for the long-term behavior.

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1

Population trajectories in the system of (i) Deterministic system (ii) Stochastic system under the noise intensities τ1=0.08,τ2=0.02,τ3=0.01.

Fig. 2.

Fig. 2

Extinction of the compartment of It under the noise τ1=0.08,τ2=0.02,τ3=0.01 and the other parameters p,q,λ,k1,ψ,α1,α2,β1,β2=2,50,0.00009,0.65,0.02,0.9,0.03,0.2,0.05

Figure 3 depicts the impact of random noises τii=1,2,3 on all compartment of St,Vt,It and Fig. 4 and Fig. 5 represent the effect of the noise intensities of τ1,τ2,τ3 on the compartment of Vt,It. The stochastic perturbations are.

  • (i)

    τ1=0.08,τ2=0.02,τ3=0.01 ii)τ1=0.008,τ2=0.02,τ3=0.01

  • (iii)

    τ1=0.08,τ2=0.002,τ3=0.01 iv) τ1=0.08,τ2=0.02,τ3=0.001, respectively.

Fig. 3.

Fig. 3

Profile of the compartment St,Vt,It in deterministic system and stochastic system with intensities τ1=0.08,τ2=0.02, τ3=0.01 and other parameters are p,q,λ,k1,ψ,α1,α2,β1,β2=2,50,0.9,0.65,0.02,0.9,0.03,0.2,0.05.

Fig. 4.

Fig. 4

Effect of the noise intensities τ1,τ2,τ3 on the compartment of Vt

Fig. 5.

Fig. 5

Effect of the noise intensities τ1,τ2,τ3 on the compartment of It

For all the above cases, Fig. 3 and Fig. 4 represent the existence of a stationary distribution. The stationary distribution has an ergodicity property. But we mainly concentrate on the compartment of Vt and It. When the perturbation intensities of vaccinated population or the infected population (τ2 or τ3) increase, then the disease infection will be controlled.

Sensitivities of the parameters

In this section, we have discussed the sensitivities of the biological parameters which influence greatly for all compartment. We consider that the epidemiological parameters are p,q,λ,k1,ψ,α1,α2,β1,β2=2,50,0.9,0.65,0.02,0.9,0.03,0.2,0.05 and the random noises are τ1=0.08,τ2=0.02, and τ3=0.01. For the corresponding carrying capacity of the susceptible individuals q=50,q=75,q=95, the solutions St,Vt and It of the system (2) are presented in Fig. 6. Vaccinated population increases as carrying capacity increases. That implies disease infection can be controlled.

Fig. 6.

Fig. 6

Effect of all the compartment St,Vt,It for the parameter q

Figure 7 depicts the effect of all compartment for the different values of disease transmission rate. For the stochastic perturbation τ1,τ2,τ3=0.08,0.02,0.01, the ecological parameters p,q,k1,ψ,α1,α2,β1,β2=2,50,0.65,0.02,0.9,0.03,0.2,0.05 and the disease transmission rate λ=0.9,0.09,0.009 the corresponding population intensities of susceptible, vaccinated and infected are presented in Fig. 7. The infection will decrease as the disease transmission rate increases.

Fig. 7.

Fig. 7

Impact of all the compartment for the parameter λ

Choose the epidemiological parameter p,q,λ,ψ,α1,α2,β1,β2=2,50,0.9,0.02,0.9,0.03,0.2,0.05 and the random noises τ1,τ2,τ3=0.08,0.02,0.01. Consider the saturation constant k1=0.65,0.85,1.05, the corresponding population number of susceptible, vaccinated and infected individuals is represented in Fig. 8. The saturation rate is inversely proportional to infected individuals, i.e., the saturation increases, and then, the epidemic infection decreases.

Fig. 8.

Fig. 8

Impact of all the compartment for the parameter k1

Discussion of results

In this study, to the best of our knowledge, we establish the extinction of disease and disease persistence of the SVIS epidemic model, which adds the existence of ergodic stationary distribution and analysis of probability density function. The main study will be delivered in the following ways.

  • With the linear random fluctuation (Cai and Kang 2015; Zhao and Jiang 2014; Khan and Khan 2018; Zhang 2017; Caraballo et al. 2020; Wang and Jiang 2019; Wang and Wang 2018; Liu et al. 2019a; Zhou et al. 2020, 2021; Qi and Jiang 2020; Li et al. 2010), we emphasize on SVIS epidemic model in stochastic nature with saturated incidence and vaccination strategies. With the help of Lyapunov functions, we derive the stochastic critical value RS. Under RS>1, a unique ergodic stationary distribution is obtained of the system (2) by the Khas’minskii theory. As the same expression of RS and basic reproduction number R, the dynamical properties of susceptible, vaccinated, infected individuals determine the stochastic positive equilibrium state. In the present study, τ1,τ2,τ3 are their corresponding random fluctuations. By using numerical results and sensitivities of parameters, we discuss some important measure to control the infectious disease.

  • We cannot determine the clear view of statistical nature of disease persistence from the existence of ergodic stationary distribution. With the help Zhou et al. (Zhou et al. 2020), some algebraic equations are improved by the three-dimensional probability density function. The existence of stationary distribution with ergodic properties can obtain the corresponding persistence in the studies (Ma et al. 2015; Liu et al. 2019b). We obtain the expression of log-normal three-dimensional density function Th1,h2,h3. Using the algebraic equation Y2+Bρ+ρBT=0, we solve the covariance matrix ρ. It is more difficult to obtain ρ. Then, some standard matrices R1,R2,R3 are taken. We can investigate the matrix ρ is positive definite and the diffusion matrix W0 is semi-positive definite.

For our future scope, we should add another population for recovered and analyze the disease persistence and the existence of ergodic stationary distribution. By considering the important effect of telegraph noises (Zhang et al. 2016) into the system and regime switching can be studied. It is expected that this task can be solved in later research work.

Acknowledgements

The authors are thankful to the respected editors and anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments and suggestions for the improvement of the article. The first author would like to acknowledge the financial support provided by DST-INSPIRE, Government of India, Ministry of Science & Technology, New Delhi, India (DST/INSPIRE Fellowship/2017/ IF170211).

Appendix 1

Ecological description of the parameters and its units.

Parameters Description Unit
p Intrinsic growth rate day−1
q Carrying capacity of the susceptible individuals Human/area
λ Disease transmission rate between susceptible and infected individuals day−1
k1 Saturation constant Cell/ml
ψ Natural death rate day−1
α1 Vaccination rate of susceptible population day−1
α2 Death rate due to disease day−1
β1 Immunity loss coefficient of vaccinated individuals day−1
β2 Recovery rate of infected individuals day−1

Appendix 2

The basic reproduction number R can be computed by using the concept of next-generation matrix method (Driessche and Watmough 2002).

Let Z=I,V,ST, the deterministic system (1) can be written as

dZdt=T1z-T2z

where T1z=λSI1+k1I00,T2z=ψ+α2+β2I-α1S+β1+ψVλSI1+k1I+ψS+α1S-β2I-β1V-pS1-Sq

Jacobian matrix of T1z & T2z at the disease-free equilibrium E#=S#,V#,I#=qpp-ψ-α1β1+ψ+β1α1β1+ψ,α1(β1+ψ)qpp-ψ-α1β1+ψ+β1α1β1+ψ,0

J(T1z)=F000 and J(T2z)=V10J3J4.where F=λS#, V1=ψ+α2+β200β1+ψ, J3=λS#-β2,-β1,

J4=-α1,ψ+α1-p+2pS#qT

The basic reproduction number R of the deterministic system is defined by the spectral radius of the matrix F.V1-1=λS#ψ+α2+β2=λψ+α2+β2qpp-ψ-α1β1+ψ+β1α1β1+ψ.

Appendix 3

Let us assume that Ω,Θ,Θtt0,P be the complete probability space with filtration Θtt0 satisfying the usual conditions (i.e., it is increasing and right continuous when Θ0 contains all P null sets). For detailed study, the researcher is referred to Mao (Mao 1997). To explain the dynamical behavior of the stochastic system (2), some useful notations are defined in that space. Let us assume that Rn denotes the Euclidean space with n dimension. We represent

R+m={y1,..,ymyt>0,1tm},
Πm,3=1m,m×1m,m×1m,m

and let Bt and B-1 be the transpose matrix and inverse matrix of B, respectively.

Now, we choose the m -dimensional stochastic differential equation.dYt=gYt,tdt+h(Yt,tdGt for tt0 and it satisfies the initial data Y0=Y0Rm. The function Gt represents a m -dimensional standard Brownian motion defined in that space. The differential operator L is defined by

L=t+i=1mgiYt,tYi+12i,j=1m[hTYt,thYt,t]ij2YiYj.

Here, the operator L is considered on a function VC2.1Rm×t0,;0,. Then, we have

LVY,t=VtYt,t+VYYt,tgYt,t+12trace[hTYt,tVYYYt,thYt,t],

where Vt=Vt, VY=Vy1,...,Vym and VYY=2Vyiyjm×m. If YtRm, we get

dVYt,t=LVYt,tdt+VYYt,thYt,tdGt.

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