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Main Authors: Kristiansen, K. U., Sarantaris, A. H.
Format: Preprint
Published: 2023
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.18002
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author Kristiansen, K. U.
Sarantaris, A. H.
author_facet Kristiansen, K. U.
Sarantaris, A. H.
contents Recently, concepts from the emerging field of tropical geometry have been used to identify different scaling regimes in chemical reaction networks where dimension reduction may take place. In this paper, we try to formalize these ideas further in the context of planar polynomial ODEs. In particular, we develop a theory of a tropical dynamical system, based upon a differential inclusion, that has a set of discontinuities on a subset of the associated tropical curve. The development is inspired by an approach of Peter Szmolyan that uses the connection of tropical geometry with logarithmic paper. In this paper, we define a phaseportrait, a notion of equivalence and characterize structural stability. Furthermore, we demonstrate the results on several examples, including a(n) (generalized) autocatalator model. Our main result is that there are finitely many equivalence classes of structurally stable phase portraits and we enumerate these ($15$ in total) in the context of the generalized autocatalator model. We believe that the property of finitely many structurally stable phase portraits underlines the potential of the tropical approach, also in higher dimension, as a method to obtain and identify skeleton models in chemical reaction networks in extreme parameter regimes.
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spellingShingle On a tropicalization of planar polynomial ODEs with finitely many structurally stable phase portraits
Kristiansen, K. U.
Sarantaris, A. H.
Dynamical Systems
Recently, concepts from the emerging field of tropical geometry have been used to identify different scaling regimes in chemical reaction networks where dimension reduction may take place. In this paper, we try to formalize these ideas further in the context of planar polynomial ODEs. In particular, we develop a theory of a tropical dynamical system, based upon a differential inclusion, that has a set of discontinuities on a subset of the associated tropical curve. The development is inspired by an approach of Peter Szmolyan that uses the connection of tropical geometry with logarithmic paper. In this paper, we define a phaseportrait, a notion of equivalence and characterize structural stability. Furthermore, we demonstrate the results on several examples, including a(n) (generalized) autocatalator model. Our main result is that there are finitely many equivalence classes of structurally stable phase portraits and we enumerate these ($15$ in total) in the context of the generalized autocatalator model. We believe that the property of finitely many structurally stable phase portraits underlines the potential of the tropical approach, also in higher dimension, as a method to obtain and identify skeleton models in chemical reaction networks in extreme parameter regimes.
title On a tropicalization of planar polynomial ODEs with finitely many structurally stable phase portraits
topic Dynamical Systems
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.18002