The stability of the positive solution for a fractional SIR model

Abstract

In order to deal with non-differentiable functions, a modification of the Riemann–Liouville definition is recently proposed which appears to provide a framework for a fractional calculus which is quite parallel with classical calculus. Based on these new results, we study on the fractional SIR model in this paper. First, we give the general solution of the fractional differential equation. And then a unique global positive solution of the SIR model is obtained. Furthermore, we get the Lyapunov stability theory. By using this stability theory, the asymptotic stability of the positive solution is analyzed.