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A stochastic model for a chemical reaction network is embedded in a one-parameter family of models with species numbers and rate constants scaled by powers of the parameter. A systematic approach is developed for determining appropriate…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-11-09 Hye-Won Kang , Thomas G. Kurtz

Open biochemical systems of interacting molecules are ubiquitous in life-related processes. However, established computational methodologies, like molecular dynamics, are still mostly constrained to closed systems and timescales too small…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-10-15 Margarita Kostré , Christof Schütte , Frank Noé , Mauricio J. del Razo

We consider a reaction-diffusion system where some components react and diffuse on the boundary of a region, while other components diffuse in the interior and react with those on the boundary through mass transport. We establish local…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-11-20 Vandana Sharma , Jeff Morgan

To what extent do the characteristic features of a chemical reaction network reflect its purpose and function? In general, one argues that correlations between specific features and specific functions are key to understanding a complex…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-03-22 Sang Hoon Lee , Sebastian Bernhardsson , Petter Holme , Beom Jun Kim , Petter Minnhagen

We present a mathematical study for the development of Multiple Sclerosis in which a spatio-temporal kinetic { theory} model describes, at the mesoscopic level, the dynamics of a high number of interacting agents. We consider both…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-07 Romina Travaglini , João Miguel Oliveira

Complex behaviour in many systems arises from the stochastic interactions of spatially distributed particles or agents. Stochastic reaction-diffusion processes are widely used to model such behaviour in disciplines ranging from biology to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-23 David Schnoerr , Ramon Grima , Guido Sanguinetti

We show that discrete distributions on the $d$-dimensional non-negative integer lattice can be approximated arbitrarily well via the marginals of stationary distributions for various classes of stochastic chemical reaction networks. We…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Daniele Cappelletti , Andrés Ortiz-Muñoz , David Anderson , Erik Winfree

A reaction network is a chemical system involving multiple reactions and chemical species. Stochastic models of such networks treat the system as a continuous time Markov chain on the number of molecules of each species with reactions as…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Karen Ball , Thomas G. Kurtz , Lea Popovic , Greg Rempala

We study the discrete Gierer-Meinhardt model of reaction-diffusion on three different types of networks: regular, random and scale-free. The model dynamics lead to the formation of stationary Turing patterns in the steady state in certain…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Subhasis Banerjee , Shrestha Basu Mallik , Indrani Bose

Stochastic reaction networks are dynamical models of biochemical reaction systems and form a particular class of continuous-time Markov chains on $\mathbb{N}^n$. Here we provide a fundamental characterisation that connects structural…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-05-22 Daniele Cappelletti , Carsten Wiuf

A chemical reaction network (CRN) is composed of reactions that can be seen as interactions among entities called species, which exist within the system. Endowed with kinetics, CRN has a corresponding set of ordinary differential equations…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-04-20 Bryan S. Hernandez , Ralph John L. De la Cruz

Reaction systems are discrete dynamical systems inspired by bio-chemical processes, whose dynamical behaviour is expressed by set-theoretic operations on finite sets. Reaction systems thus provide a description of bio-chemical phenomena…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Alberto Dennunzio , Enrico Formenti , Luca Manzoni , Antonio E. Porreca

Realistic examples of reaction-diffusion phenomena governing spatial and spatiotemporal pattern formation are rarely isolated systems, either chemically or thermodynamically. However, even formulations of `open' reaction-diffusion systems…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-05-14 Andrew L. Krause , Václav Klika , Philip K. Maini , Denis Headon , Eamonn A. Gaffney

Chemical reaction networks (CRNs) are prototypical complex systems because reactions are nonlinear and connected in intricate ways, and they are also essential to understand living systems. Here, I discuss how recent developments in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-12-23 Massimiliano Esposito

Under suitable assumptions, the dynamic behaviour of a chemical reaction network is governed by an autonomous set of polynomial ordinary differential equations over continuous variables representing the concentrations of the reactant…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-07-15 Matthew D. Johnston , David Siegel

Reaction-diffusion systems may lead to the formation of steady state heterogeneous spatial patterns, known as Turing patterns. Their mathematical formulation is important for the study of pattern formation in general and play central roles…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-05 Lucas D. Fernandes , Marcus A. M. Aguiar

Within a fully microscopic setting, we derive a variational principle for the non-equilibrium steady states of chemical reaction networks, valid for time-scales over which chemical potentials can be taken to be slowly varying: at…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2015-06-05 Andrea De Martino , Daniele De Martino , Roberto Mulet , Guido Uguzzoni

In this paper, we propose a new mathematical model nonlinear reaction-diffusion PDE's describing the dynamics of propagation of cancer. Here the mixed problem for the proposed PDE's is investigated and by applying obtained results…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-10 Kamal N. Soltanov

Reaction-diffusion systems where transition rates exhibit quenched disorder are common in physical and chemical systems. We study pair reactions on a periodic two-dimensional lattice, including continuous deposition and spontaneous…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2010-11-10 A. Wolff , I. Lohmar , J. Krug , Y. Frank , O. Biham

The propagations of diseases, behaviors and information in real systems are rarely independent of each other, but they are coevolving with strong interactions. To uncover the dynamical mechanisms, the evolving spatiotemporal patterns and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-10-02 Wei Wang , Quan-Hui Liu , Junhao Liang , Yanqing Hu , Tao Zhou