On global behavior of a some SIR epidemic model based on the Poincaré compactification

Abstract

It is important to study the global behavior of solutions to systems of ordinary differential equations describing the transmission dynamics of infectious disease. In this paper, we present a different approach from the Lyapunov function used in most of them. This approach is based on the Poincaré compactification. We then apply the method to a SIR endemic model as a test case, and discuss its effectiveness and the potential applications of this approach. In addition, we refine the discussion of dynamics near the equilibrium, derive the asymptotic behavior, and mention its relation to the basic reproduction number.