Autocatalysis in reaction networks

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DOI10.1007/S11538-014-0024-XzbMATH Open1330.92139arXiv1309.3957OpenAlexW2059398978WikidataQ46835359 ScholiaQ46835359MaRDI QIDQ486624FDOQ486624


Authors: Abhishek Deshpande, Manoj Gopalkrishnan Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 16 January 2015

Published in: Bulletin of Mathematical Biology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The persistence conjecture is a long-standing open problem in chemical reaction network theory. It concerns the behavior of solutions to coupled ODE systems that arise from applying mass-action kinetics to a network of chemical reactions. The idea is that if all reactions are reversible in a weak sense, then no species can go extinct. A notion that has been found useful in thinking about persistence is that of "critical siphon." We explore the combinatorics of critical siphons, with a view towards the persistence conjecture. We introduce the notions of "drainable" and "self-replicable" (or autocatalytic) siphons. We show that: every minimal critical siphon is either drainable or self-replicable; reaction networks without drainable siphons are persistent; and non-autocatalytic weakly-reversible networks are persistent. Our results clarify that the difficulties in proving the persistence conjecture are essentially due to competition between drainable and self-replicable siphons.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1309.3957




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