Asymptotic proportionality (weak ergodicity) and conditional asymptotic equality of solutions to time-heterogeneous sublinear difference and differential equations (Q1107011)

The author studies general sublinear difference equations (1) \(u_{n+1}=A_ nu_ n\) in an ordered Banach space X, where \(u_ n\) are vectors in the positive cone \(X_+\) of the space X. The main result is the following: Let the operators \(A_ n\), \(n\in {\mathbb{N}}\) form a uniformly positive, uniformly monotone and uniformly sublinear family on the sublinear manifold Y in \(X_+\setminus \{0\}\). Then any two solutions to (1) with initial values in Y are asymptotically proportional. Applying this result to the nonautonomous differential equations modelling the spread of gonorrhea, the spread of a vector-borne infections disease and the dynamics of a logistically growing spatially diffusing population, the author obtains some sufficient conditions for the asymptotic proportionality and asymptotic equality of any pair of solutions of these equations.