Stability and basins of attraction of invariant surfaces (Q2500684)

The paper presents a new approach for the determination of the stability properties of regular invariant surfaces in the phase space of a system of ordinary differential equations. This approach also yields an estimation on the basin of attraction of the invariant surface. The stability problem is reduced to the study of nonautonomous linear differential equations and a theorem given by Ważewski. The key proposition of the paper investigates the Lyapunov function of a homogeneous Lotka-Volterra system \(\dot U_j=U_j\sum_{l=1}^m M_{jl}U_l\), \(j=1,\dots,m\), which describes the time evolution of the quasimonomials \(U_j=\prod_{k=1}^n x_k^{B_{jk}}\), \(j=1,\dots,m\).