Title
Analyzing Multistationarity in Chemical Reaction Networks using the Determinant Optimization Method
Abstract
Multistationary chemical reaction networks are of interest to scientists and mathematicians alike. While some criteria for multistationarity exist, obtaining explicit reaction rates and steady states that exhibit multistationarity for a given network-in order to check nondegeneracy or determine stability of the steady states, for instance-is nontrivial. Nonetheless, we accomplish this task for a certain family of sequestration networks. Additionally, our results allow us to prove the existence of nondegenerate steady states for some of these sequestration networks, thereby resolving a subcase of a conjecture of Joshi and Shiu. Our work relies on the determinant optimization method, developed by Craciun and Feinberg, for asserting that certain networks are multistationary. More precisely, we implement the construction of reaction rates and multiple steady states which appears in the proofs that underlie their method. Furthermore, we describe in detail the steps of this construction so that other researchers can more easily obtain, as we did, multistationary rates and steady states.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1016/j.amc.2016.04.030
Applied Mathematics and Computation
Keywords
Field
DocType
Mass-action kinetics,Chemical reaction networks,Multistationarity,Determinant optimization method,Steady states,Degeneracy
Mathematical analysis,Degeneracy (mathematics),Mathematical proof,Reaction rate,Chemical reaction,Conjecture,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
287
C
0096-3003
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.37
1
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
bryan felix110.37
Anne Shiu28714.47
zev woodstock371.45