Semigroup analysis of structured parasite populations

DOI10.1051/MMNP/20105307zbMATH Open1187.92079arXiv0812.1363OpenAlexW3105510778WikidataQ64453801 ScholiaQ64453801MaRDI QIDQ3562964FDOQ3562964

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Publication date: 28 May 2010

Published in: Mathematical Modelling of Natural Phenomena (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Motivated by structured parasite populations in aquaculture we consider a class of size-structured population models, where individuals may be recruited into the population with distributed states at birth. The mathematical model which describes the evolution of such a population is a first-order nonlinear partial integro-differential equation of hyperbolic type. First, we use positive perturbation arguments and utilise results from the spectral theory of semigroups to establish conditions for the existence of a positive equilibrium solution of our model. Then, we formulate conditions that guarantee that the linearised system is governed by a positive quasicontraction semigroup on the biologically relevant state space. We also show that the governing linear semigroup is eventually compact, hence growth properties of the semigroup are determined by the spectrum of its generator. In the case of a separable fertility function, we deduce a characteristic equation, and investigate the stability of equilibrium solutions in the general case using positive perturbation arguments.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0812.1363

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zbMATH Keywords

stabilityspectral methodspositivityaquaculturequasicontraction semigroups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Population dynamics (general) (92D25) Ecology (92D40) Stability in context of PDEs (35B35) Integro-partial differential equations (45K05) One-parameter semigroups and linear evolution equations (47D06) Applications of operator theory in chemistry and life sciences (47N60)

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