Stability and steady state of complex cooperative systems: a diakoptic approach

Autor: Rubén J. Sánchez-García, Cristina Parigini, Ben D. MacArthur, Philip Greulich
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Royal Society Open Science, Vol 6, Iss 12 (2019)
Royal Society Open Science
Popis: Cooperative dynamics are common in ecology and population dynamics. However, their commonly high degree of complexity with a large number of coupled degrees of freedom renders them difficult to analyse. Here we present a graph-theoretical criterion, via a diakoptic approach (`divide-and-conquer') to determine a cooperative system's stability by decomposing the system's dependence graph into its strongly connected components (SCCs). In particular, we show that a linear cooperative system is Lyapunov stable if the SCCs of the associated dependence graph all have non-positive dominant eigenvalues, and if no SCCs which have dominant eigenvalue zero are connected by a path.
18 pages, 2 figures. Major changes (introduction and conclusions rewritten, new proof of Theorem 2)
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