Disguised toric dynamical systems

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Abstract: We study families of polynomial dynamical systems inspired by biochemical reaction networks. We focus on complex balanced mass-action systems, which have also been called toric. They are known or conjectured to enjoy very strong dynamical properties, such as existence and uniqueness of positive steady states, local and global stability, persistence, and permanence. We consider the class of disguised toric dynamical systems, which contains toric dynamical systems, and to which all dynamical properties mentioned above extend naturally. By means of (real) algebraic geometry we show that some reaction networks have an empty toric locus or a toric locus of Lebesgue measure zero in parameter space, while their disguised toric locus is of positive measure. We also propose some algorithms one can use to detect the disguised toric locus.


A Euclidean embedded graph (or \(E\)-graph for short) is a digraph (directed graph) \(G=(V,E)\), where \(V\) is the set of vertices, \(E\) is the set of edges with no self-loops and at most one edge between a pair of ordered vertices. The authors consider biochemical reaction networks as \(E\)-graphs (where \(E\) is the set of reactions) and families of polynomial dynamical systems inspired by them. They focus on toric (i.~e. complex balanced mass-action) systems. These systems are known or conjectured to enjoy very strong dynamical properties, such as existence and uniqueness of positive steady states, local and global stability, persistence, and permanence. The authors consider the class of disguised toric dynamical systems, which contains toric dynamical systems, and to which all dynamical properties mentioned above extend naturally. By means of (real) algebraic geometry they show that some reaction networks have an empty toric locus or a toric locus of Lebesgue measure zero in the parameter space, while their disguised toric locus is of positive measure. They also propose some algorithms one can use to detect the disguised toric locus.











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