Necessary Conditions for Multistationarity and Stable Periodicity
- 1 March 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by World Scientific Pub Co Pte Ltd in Journal of Biological Systems
- Vol. 06 (01) , 3-9
- https://doi.org/10.1142/s0218339098000042
Abstract
We show in this paper that, for a differential system defined by a quasi-monotonous function f (with constant sign partial derivatives) the existence of a positive loop in the interaction graph associated to the Jacobian matrix of f is a necessary condition for multistationarity, and the existence of a negative loop comprising at least two elements is a necessary condition for stable periodicity. This gives a formal proof of R.Thomas's conjectures.Keywords
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