Epidemic spreading on higher-order networks

Gathering events, e.g., going to gyms and meetings, are ubiquitous and crucial in the spreading phenomena, which induce higher-order interactions, and thus can be described as higher-order networks. Recently, uncovering and understanding the interacting mechanisms, spatiotemporal evolving patterns, critical phenomena and phase transitions of higher-order networked epidemic spreading is a very hot challenge in network science. This review introduces recent progress in studying epidemic-spreading dynamics on higher-order networks, emphasizing the contributions from statistical mechanics and network science perspectives. The theoretical methods, critical phenomena, phase transitions, spreading mechanisms, and effects of higher-order network topology for single and interacting epidemic spreading dynamics are presented in detail, and the challenges in this field and open issues for future studies are also discussed. (c) 2024 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.