Title
A Geometric Approach to the Global Attractor Conjecture.
Abstract
This paper introduces the class of strongly endotactic networks, a subclass of the endotactic networks introduced by Craciun, Nazarov, and Pantea. The main result states that the global attractor conjecture holds for complex-balanced systems that are strongly endotactic: every trajectory with positive initial condition converges to the unique positive equilibrium allowed by conservation laws. This extends a recent result by Anderson for systems where the reaction diagram has only one linkage class (connected component). The results here are proved using differential inclusions, a setting that includes power-law systems. The key ideas include a perspective on reaction kinetics in terms of combinatorial geometry of reaction diagrams, a projection argument that enables analysis of a given system in terms of systems with lower dimension, and an extension of Birch's theorem, a well-known result about intersections of affine subspaces with manifolds parameterized by monomials.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1137/130928170
SIAM JOURNAL ON APPLIED DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS
Keywords
Field
DocType
differential inclusion,mass-action kinetics,reaction network,persistence,global attractor conjecture,polytope,Birch's theorem
Attractor,Differential inclusion,Discrete geometry,Mathematical analysis,Birch's theorem,Initial value problem,Conjecture,Conservation law,Mathematics,Manifold
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
13
2
1536-0040
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
12
0.94
13
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Manoj Gopalkrishnan1144.56
Ezra Miller2121.62
Anne Shiu38714.47