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Single-Target Networks

Dynamical Systems 2021-01-19 v2

Abstract

We characterize the dynamics of all single-target networks under mass-action kinetics: either the system is (i) globally stable for all choice of rate constants (in fact, dynamically equivalent to a detailed-balanced system) or (ii) has no positive steady states for any choice of rate constants and all trajectories must converge to the boundary of the positive orthant or to infinity. Moreover, global stability occurs if and only if the target vertex of the network is in the relative interior of the convex hull of the source vertices.

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@article{arxiv.2006.01192,
  title  = {Single-Target Networks},
  author = {Gheorghe Craciun and Jiaxin Jin and Polly Y. Yu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.01192},
  year   = {2021}
}

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18 pages, 7 figures

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