Conservative replicator and Lotka-Volterra equations in the context of Diracbig-isotropic structures

DOI10.3934/JGM.2020008MaRDI QIDQ2220253zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Hassan Najafi Alishah

Publication date 22 January 2021

Published in Journal of Geometric Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.11912

zbMATH Keywords

big-isotropic structureconstants of motionDirac structureLotka-Volterra equationsreplicator equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General theory of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems, Hamiltonian and Lagrangian structures, symmetries, invariants (37J06) Symmetries and conservation laws, reverse symmetries, invariant manifolds and their bifurcations, reduction for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H33) Population dynamics (general) (92D25)

Abstract: We introduce an algorithm to find possible constants of motion for a given replicator equation. The algorithm is inspired by Dirac geometry and a Hamiltonian description for the replicator equations with such constants of motion, up to a time re-parametrization, is provided using Dirac$$big-isotropic structures. Using the equivalence between replicator and Lotka-Volterra (LV) equations, the set of conservative LV equations is enlarged. Our approach generalizes the well-known use of gauge transformations to skew-symmetrize the interaction matrix of a LV system. In the case of predator-prey model, our method does allow interaction between different predators and between different preys.

Review text

Replicator equations describe evolutionary game and population dynamics in mathematical biology. It is known that (continuous) \(n\)-dimensional replicator equations are equivalent to generalized Lotka-Volterra equations with one less variable. In this article, after assuming the existence of a formal equilibrium point for the replicator dynamics (i.e. a point in a \((n-1)\)-dimensional simplex where the average payoffs of all strategies coincide), sufficient conditions are determined for the construction of a constant of motion \(H\) of the system. Then, it is shown that \(H\) becomes the Hamiltonian of the system within certain Dirac and big-isotropic structures, sometimes known as weak-Hamiltonian structures, and conditions are given to have the stronger presymplectic and Poisson structures. As a consequence, the equivalent Lotka-Volterra dynamics is conservative and Hamiltonian within the weak-Hamiltonian, or stronger, structure, allowing the Hamiltonian formalism to be extended to more general population dynamics, including interactions among different predators and different preys, while the standard (symplectic) Lotka-Volterra models encode interactions between predators and preys only.

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