Multiple Equilibria and Thresholds Due to Relative Investment Costs

A dynamic model of the firm is studied in which investment costs depend on the magnitude of the investment relative to the stock of capital goods. It is shown that in general nonunique steady states can exist which can be stable or unstable. It is possible that unstable steady states occur in the concave domain of the Hamiltonian. For a particular specification, a scenario occurs with two stable steady states and one unstable steady state. The two stable steady states are long run equilibria; which one of them is reached in the long run depends on the initial state. In case the Hamiltonian is locally concave around the unstable steady state, this steady state is the threshold that separates the domain of initial conditions that each of the stable steady states attracts. The unstable steady state is a node and investment is a continuous function of the capital stock. If the unstable steady state lies in the nonconcave domain of the Hamiltonian, this steady state can either be a node or a focus. Furthermore, continuity can (but need not) be retained similarly to the concave case, a fact which has been entirely overlooked in the literature.     

The influence of a geographical barrier on the balance of selection and migration

In biology, a cline is defined as a usually gradual change in gene frequency or phenotype of a population in equilibrium, from one place to another. We define a cline as a nonconstant stable steady state solution. However, for the model studied in this paper, these two definitions coincide: a nonconstant stable steady state solution is necessarily monotone. It is proved that for small values of the penetrability of the barrier, exactly two clines exist. Since we prove that the Ω-limit set of any initial condition is a steady state solution, the information thus obtained yields a rather complete understanding of the qualitative behaviour of the solutions of the evolution problem under consideration.     

Asymptotic behavior and stability switch for a mature–immature model of cell differentiation

We consider a nonlinear age-structured model, inspired by hematopoiesis modelling, describing the dynamics of a cell population divided into mature and immature cells. Immature cells, that can be either proliferating or non-proliferating, differentiate in mature cells, that in turn control the immature cell population through a negative feedback. We reduce the system to two delay differential equations, and we investigate the asymptotic stability of the trivial and the positive steady states. By constructing a Lyapunov function, the trivial steady state is proven to be globally asymptotically stable when it is the only equilibrium of the system. The asymptotic stability of the positive steady state is related to a delay-dependent characteristic equation. Existence of a Hopf bifurcation and stability switch for the positive steady state is established. Numerical simulations illustrate the stability results.     

A competition un-stirred chemostat model with virus in an aquatic system

A reaction–diffusion system of two bacteria species competing a single limiting nutrient with the consideration of virus infection is derived and analysed. Firstly, the well-posedness of the system, the existence of the trivial and semi-trivial steady states, and some prior estimations of the steady states are given. Secondly, a single species subsystem with virus is studied. The stability of the trivial and semi-trivial steady states and the uniform persistence of the subsystem are obtained. Further, taking the infective ability of virus as a bifurcation parameter, the global structure of the positive steady states and the effect of virus on the positive steady states are established via bifurcation theory and limiting arguments. It shows that the backward bifurcation may occur. Some sufficient conditions for the existence, uniqueness and stability of the positive steady state are also obtained. Finally, some sufficient conditions on the existence of the positive steady states for the full system are derived by using the fixed point index theory. Some results on persistence or extinction for the full system are also obtained.     

带扩散项单种群模型的精确能控性

本文研究了一类单种群生态模型的精确能控性问题.利用线性化系统的Carleman估计和Kakutani不动点定理,证明了该模型稳态解的局部能控性.它反应了外部控制在种群演变过程中的影响作用.     

Extinction and blow-up phenomena in a non-linear gender structured population model

In this article we consider a gender structured model in population dynamics. We assume that the fertility rate depends upon the weighted population of males instead of total population of males. The proportion of males in the population is determined by fixed environmental or social conditions. Here we prove an existence and uniqueness result for a non-trivial steady state. If the initial age distribution is uniformly below the non-trivial steady state then we show that the total population goes extinct in infinite time. On the other hand, if we take the initial age distribution to be uniformly above the steady state then the total population blows up exponentially with time.     

Hopf bifurcations in a reaction-diffusion population model with delay effect

A reaction-diffusion population model with a general time-delayed growth rate per capita is considered. The growth rate per capita can be logistic or weak Allee effect type. From a careful analysis of the characteristic equation, the stability of the positive steady state solution and the existence of forward Hopf bifurcation from the positive steady state solution are obtained via the implicit function theorem, where the time delay is used as the bifurcation parameter. The general results are applied to a “food-limited” population model with diffusion and delay effects as well as a weak Allee effect population model.     

A microbial continuous culture system with diffusion and diversified growth

A reaction-diffusion model is presented to describe the microbial continuous culture with diversified growth. The existence of nonnegative solutions and attractors for the system is obtained, the stability of steady states and the steady state bifurcation are studied under three growth conditions. In the case of no growth inhibition or only product inhibition, the system admits one positive constant steady state which is stable; in the case of growth inhibition only by substrate, the system can have two positive constant steady states, explicit conditions of the stability and the steady state bifurcation are also determined. In addition, numerical simulations are given to exhibit the theoretical results.     

NUMERICAL STUDY OF THE TWO-DIMENSIONAL SPRUCE BUDWORM REACTION-DIFFUSION EQUATION WITH DENSITY DEPENDENT DIFFUSION

The spruce budworm model is one of the interesting single species reaction-diffusion problems describing insect dispersal behavior. In this paper, we investigate a two-dimensional model with linear diffusion dependence and a convective wind. This system has been successfully solved using an operator splitting method for various domains and initial conditions. The numerical results show that populations can grow and diffuse in such a way as to produce steady state outbreak populations or steady state inhomogeneous spatial patterns in which they aggregate with low population densities.     

The stochastic web on a spherical surface generated by simple, 3-dimensional rotational transformations

It is shown that the stochastic web (or chaotic web) on the surface of a sphere can be generated by a simple, 3-dimentional rotational map, constructed by three rotational angles about each coordinate axis: x-axis, y-axis and z-axis. It is remarkable that the rotational angles in our model do not need to be complicated functions of the coordinates. As a matter of fact, the stochastic web is found when our map only consists of one simple functional rotational angle and two constant rotational angles, under certain resonance conditions. The trajectories are computed and the 3-dimentional plots of the stochastic web on the spherical surface are also presented.     

Stability in predator – prey models and discretization of a modified Volterra – Lotka model

We consider n  2 populations of animals that are living in mutual predator – prey relations or are pairwise neutral to each other. We assume the temporal development of the population densities to be described by a system of differential equations which has an equilibrium state solution. We derive sufficient conditions for this equilibrium state to be stable by Lyapunov's method. The results supplement those published elsewhere.

Further we consider a modification of the Volterra – Lotka model which admits an asymptotically stable steady state solution. This model is discretized in two ways and we investigate how small the time step size has to be chosen in order to guarantee that the steady state solution is an attractive fixed point of the discretized model. This investigation is connected with the determination of the model parameters from given data.     

Subcategories of fixed points of mutations by exceptional objects in triangulated categories

We first prove that the subcategory of fixed points of mutation determined by an exceptional object E in a triangulated category coincide with the perpendicular category of E. Based on this characterisation, we prove that the subcategory of fixed points of mutation in the derived category of the coherent sheaves on weighted projective line with genus one is equivalent to the derived category of a hereditary algebra. Meanwhile, we induce two new recollements by left and right mutations from a given recollement.     

HUMAN FERTILITY DECISIONS AND COMMON PROPERTY RESOURCES: A DYNAMIC ANALYSIS

ABSTRACT. In rural areas of developing countries, parental decisions on number of offspring may be made on the basis of the role of children in harvesting local common property renewable resources. It has been argued that this may lead to a cycle of human over‐population and resource over‐exploitation. To investigate the plausibility of this argument, we present a discrete dynamic model with two state variables representing human population level N and resource stock level S. The model is similar to one given by Nerlove and Meyer but differs in several important respects. It is assumed that, in each over‐lapping generation of parents and children, parents decide how many children to have based on their resulting share of the local resource harvest and the costs associated with child‐rearing. Using simulation and analytical methods, the long term steady state population and resource stock levels for this dynamic noncooperative game are contrasted with the steady state when parental fertility decisions are made in a cooperative manner.     

Hair-triggered instability of radial steady states, spread and extinction in semilinear heat equations

We first study the initial value problem for a general semilinear heat equation. We prove that every bounded nonconstant radial steady state is unstable if the spatial dimension is low (n?10) or if the steady state is flat enough at infinity: the solution of the heat equation either becomes unbounded as t approaches the lifespan, or eventually stays above or below another bounded radial steady state, depending on if the initial value is above or below the first steady state; moreover, the second steady state must be a constant if n?10.Using this instability result, we then prove that every nonconstant radial steady state of the generalized Fisher equation is a hair-trigger for two kinds of dynamical behavior: extinction and spreading. We also prove more criteria on initial values for these types of behavior. Similar results for a reaction-diffusion system modeling an isothermal autocatalytic chemical reaction are also obtained.     

Dynamics of a population in two patches with dispersal

A two-dimensional discrete system of a species in two patches proposed by Newman et al. is studied. It is shown that the unique interior steady state is globally asymptotically stable if the active population has a Beverton–Holt type growth rate. If the population is also subject to Allee effects, then the system has two interior steady states whenever the density-independent growth rate is large. In addition, the model has period-two solutions if the symmetric dispersal exceeds a critical threshold. For small dispersal, populations may either go extinct or eventually stabilize. However, populations are oscillating over time if dispersal is beyond the critical value and the initial populations are large.     

Non-constant positive steady state of one resource and two consumers model with diffusion

In this paper, a predator-prey reaction-diffusion system with one resource and two consumers is considered. Assume that one consumer species exhibits Holling II functional response while the other consumer species exhibits Beddington-DeAngelis functional response, and they compete for the common resource. First, it is proved that the unique positive constant steady state is stable for the ODE system and the reaction-diffusion system. Second, a prior estimates of positive steady state is given. Finally, the non-existence of non-constant positive steady state, the existence and bifurcation of non-constant positive steady state are studied.     

On the location of fixed points on pairs of spaces

Let f: (X, A)→(X, A) be an admissible selfmap of a pair of metrizable ANR's. A Nielsen number of the complement Ñ(f; X, A) and a Nielsen number of the boundary ñ(f; X, A) are defined. Ñ(f; X, A) is a lower bound for the number of fixed points on C1(X - A) for all maps in the homotopy class of f. It is usually possible to homotope f to a map which is fixed point free on Bd A, but maps in the homotopy class of f which have a minimal fixed point set on X must have at least ñ(f; X, A) fixed points on Bd A. It is shown that for many pairs of compact polyhedra these lower bounds are the best possible ones, as there exists a map homotopic to f with a minimal fixed point set on X which has exactly Ñ(f; X - A) fixed points on C1(X−A) and ñ(f; X, A) fixed points on Bd A. These results, which make the location of fixed points on pairs of spaces more precise, sharpen previous ones which show that the relative Nielsen number N(f; X, A) is the minimum number of fixed points on all of X for selfmaps of (X, A), as well as results which use Lefschetz fixed point theory to find sufficient conditions for the existence of one fixed point on C1(X−A).     

An algorithmic approach for a special class of Markov chains

In this paper, we develop an algorithmic method for the evaluation of the steady state probability vector of a special class of finite state Markov chains. For the class of Markov chains considered here, it is assumed that the matrix associated with the set of linear equations for the steady state probabilities possess a special structure, such that it can be rearranged and decomposed as a sum of two matrices, one lower triangular with nonzero diagonal elements, and the other an upper triangular matrix with only very few nonzero columns. Almost all Markov chain models of queueing systems with finite source and/or finite capacity and first-come-first-served or head of the line nonpreemptive priority service discipline belongs to this special class.     

Condensation film on an inclined rotating disk

The three dimensional problem of steady fluid deposition on an inclined rotating disk is solved by similarity transform. For a given spraying rate there may be one, two or no steady state solution. The inclination causes a downward draining flow and a lateral flow. Perturbation solutions compare well with exact similarity solutions when the fluid film is thin.     

Solution to nonlinear MHDS arising from optimal growth problems

In this paper we propose a method for solving in closed form a general class of nonlinear modified Hamiltonian dynamic systems (MHDS). This method is used to analyze the intertemporal optimization problem from endogenous growth theory, especially the cases with two controls and one state variable. We use the exact solutions to study both uniqueness and indeterminacy of the optimal path when the dynamic system has not a well-defined isolated steady state. With this approach we avoid the linearization process, as well as the reduction of dimension technique usually applied when the dynamic system offers a continuum of steady states or no steady state at all.