A piecewise deterministic model for a prey-predator community

DOI10.1214/16-AAP1182zbMATH Open1358.92077arXiv1503.02492WikidataQ115517809 ScholiaQ115517809MaRDI QIDQ511477FDOQ511477

Manon Costa

Publication date: 21 February 2017

Published in: The Annals of Applied Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We are interested in prey-predator communities where the predator population evolves much faster than the prey's (e.g. insect-tree communities). We introduce a piecewise deterministic model for these prey-predator communities that arises as a limit of a microscopic model when the number of predators goes to infinity. We prove that the process has a unique invariant probability measure and that it is exponentially ergodic. Further on, we rescale the predator dynamics in order to model predators of smaller size. This slow-fast system converges to a community process in which the prey dynamics is averaged on the predator equilibria. This averaged process admits an invariant probability measure which can be computed explicitly. We use numerical simulations to study the convergence of the invariant probability measures of the rescaled processes.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.02492

zbMATH Keywords

ergodicityinvariant measuresirreducibilityslow-fast systemspiecewise deterministic Markov processesaveraging techniquesprey-predator communities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Population dynamics (general) (92D25) Continuous-time Markov processes on general state spaces (60J25)

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