Structural properties of controlled population models (Q1104897)

The authors consider the discrete dynamical system \(x(t+1)=\exp (- Qu(t))Ax(t)\), where A is a Leslie matrix, \(Q=diag(q_ 1,...,q_ n)\) with \(q_ j\geq 0\), and the scalar u describes the harvesting effort. Let be denote the i-th unit vector, i defined by \(q_ i=\max\) \(q_ j\). Then it is proved that any non-trivial element of the cone generated by \(\{\) b,Ab,\(...,A^{n-1}b\}\) can be reached in finite time from any non- trivial initial state.