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Kolmogorov Vector Fields with Robustly Permanent Subsystems

✍ Scribed by Janusz Mierczyński; Sebastian J. Schreiber


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2002
Tongue
English
Weight
97 KB
Volume
267
Category
Article
ISSN
0022-247X

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✦ Synopsis


The following results are proven. All subsystems of a dissipative Kolmogorov vector field ẋi = x i f i x are robustly permanent if and only if the external Lyapunov exponents are positive for every ergodic probability measure µ with support in the boundary of the nonnegative orthant. If the vector field is also totally competitive, its carrying simplex is C 1 . Applying these results to dissipative Lotka-Volterra systems, robust permanence of all subsystems is equivalent to every equilibrium x * satisfying f i x * > 0 whenever x * i = 0. If in addition the Lotka-Volterra system is totally competitive, then its carrying simplex is C 1 .  2002 Elsevier Science (USA)