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Since steep declines in a population's size also typically alter its composition, population bottlenecks are considered highly important for evolution. However, despite such significance, the mechanisms governing the impact of a given…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2022-06-28 Emanuele Crosato , Jeffrey N. Philippson , Shashi Thutupalli , Richard G. Morris

In this paper we define a discrete dynamical system that governs the evolution of a population of agents. From the dynamical system, a variant of Differential Evolution is derived. It is then demonstrated that, under some assumptions on the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Massimiliano Vasile , Edmondo Minisci , Marco Locatelli

Traditionally, Probability theory was dealing with limit theorems where 'limit" means that time tends to infinity. Questions about finite time dynamics (evolution) were always considered as, although important for practical applications,…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-19 Leonid Bunimovich , Kirill Kovalenko

Age-structured models capture the dynamic behavior of populations over time and result in nonlinear integro-partial differential equations (IPDEs). These processes arise in various fields such as biotechnology, economics, or demography.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-08 Carina Veil , Miroslav Krstić , Patrick McNamee , Oliver Sawodny

The celebrated Mackey-Glass model describes the dynamics of physiological \textit{delayed} systems in which the actual evolution depends on the values of the variables at some \textit{previous} times. This kind of systems are usually…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2014-08-22 Pablo Amil , Cecilia Cabeza , Arturo C. Martí

The aim of this paper is to study the dynamical behavior of non-autonomous stochastic hybrid systems with delays. By general Krylov-Bogolyubov's method, we first obtain the sufficient conditions for the existence of an evolution system of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-04-15 Dingshi Li , Yusen Lin , Zhe Pu

Aging is thought to be a consequence of intrinsic breakdowns in how genetic information is processed. But mounting experimental evidence suggests that aging can be slowed. To help resolve this mystery, I derive a mortality equation which…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2022-09-01 Thomas Fink

A nonlinear stochastic differential equation with the order of nonlinearity higher than one, with several discrete and distributed delays and time varying coefficients is considered. It is shown that the sufficient conditions for…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-10-25 Leonid Shaikhet

The dynamics of the delay logistic equation with complex parameters and arbitrary complex initial conditions is investigated. The analysis of the local stability of this difference equation has been carried out. We further exhibit several…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-07-13 S. Sarif Hassan

In this article we consider a class of state-dependent delay differential equations which is modelling the dynamics of the number of adult trees in forests. We prove the boundedness of solutions for a single species model as well as a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-05-25 Pierre Magal , Zhengyang Zhang

We provide explicit conditions for uniform stability, global asymptotic stability and uniform exponential stability for dynamic equations with a single delay and a nonnegative coefficient. Some examples on nonstandard time scales are also…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-02-21 Elena Braverman , Basak Karpuz

Many natural phenomena evolve intermittently, with periods of tranquillity interrupted by bursts of activity, rather than following a smooth gradual path. Examples include earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, solar flares, gamma-ray bursts, and…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 Per Bak , Stefan Boettcher

Existing methods rarely capture the temporal evolution of solution norms in vector nonlinear DDEs with variable delays and coefficients, often leading to overly conservative boundedness and stability criteria. We develop a framework that…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Mark A. Pinsky

In this note, we analyze an abstract evolution equation with time-dependent time delay and time-dependent delay feedback coefficient. We assume that the operator corresponding to the nondelayed part of the model generates an exponentially…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-07 Elisa Continelli , Cristina Pignotti

The Earth's climate has experienced numerous critical transitions during its history, which have often been accompanied by massive and rapid changes in the biosphere. Such transitions are evidenced in various proxy records covering…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2023-09-26 Denis-Didier Rousseau , Witold Bagniewski , Valerio Lucarini

Open-ended evolution (OEE) is relevant to a variety of biological, artificial and technological systems, but has been challenging to reproduce in silico. Most theoretical efforts focus on key aspects of open-ended evolution as it appears in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-12-20 Alyssa M Adams , Hector Zenil , Paul CW Davies , Sara I Walker

In this paper we determine the exact rate of growth of the solution of a deterministic delay differential equation in which the delayed term is regularly varying at infinity and dominates, and determine criteria to characterise this…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2013-10-10 John A. D. Appleby , Michael J. McCarthy , Alexandra Rodkina

We consider stochastic dynamical systems defined by differential equations with a uniform random time delay. The latter equations are shown to be equivalent to deterministic higher-order differential equations: for an $n$-th order equation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-10-11 P. L. Krapivsky , J. M. Luck , K. Mallick

This paper presents a guided tour of some specific problems encountered in the stability analysis of linear dynamical systems including delays in their systems' representation. More precisely, we will address the characterization of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-07 Silviu-Iulian Niculescu , Islam Boussaada , Xu-Guang Li , Guilherme Mazanti , César-Fernando Méndez-Barrios

An alternative approach - nonequilibrium evolution thermodynamics, is compared with classical Landau approach. A statistical justification of the approach is carried out with help of probability distribution function on an example of a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-08-13 Leonid S. Metlov