Subtle role of latency for information diffusion in online social networks

Xiong Fei^{1, 2, †,}, Wang Xi-Meng^{1, 2}, Cheng Jun-Jun³

Time evolutions of the density of susceptible, infected, latent, refractory nodes in homogeneous networks with the degree k̄ = 4. The system size is 2500, δ = 0.2, p_inf = 0.5, and p_lat = 0.5. (a) λ = 0.2; (b) λ = 0.5.