Some equilibrium, stability, instability and oscillatory results for an extended discrete epidemic model with evolution memory.

This paper investigates the existence and potential uniqueness of equilibrium points and some stability, instability and oscillatory properties of a discrete nonlinear epidemic model, which generalises previous Stevic’s model, whose solutions possess memory from a finite chain of preceding samples. An application example is provided where the proposed model is ‘ad hoc’ adapted to a class of SIS models widely used in epidemiology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]