Absence of epidemic threshold in scale-free networks with connectivity correlations
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Marián Boguñá, Romualdo Pastor-Satorras, and Alessandro Vespignani Departament de F́ısica Fonamental, Universitat de Barcelona, Av. Diagonal 647, 08028 Barcelona, Spain Departament de F́ısica i Enginyeria Nuclear, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Campus Nord, 08034 Barcelona, Spain The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, P.O. Box 586, Trieste, I-34014, Italy (Dated: March 17, 2003)
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