Exact Reduction of the Generalized Lotka-Volterra Equations via Integral and Algebraic Substitutions

arXiv1909.13837MaRDI QIDQ6503477FDOQ6503477

Authors: Rebecca E. Morrison 

Abstract: Systems of interacting species, such as biological environments or chemical reactions, are often described mathematically by sets of coupled ordinary differential equations. While a large number $S$ of species may be involved in the coupled dynamics, often only $s<S$ species are of interest or of consequence. In this paper, I explore how to build reduced models that include only those given $s$ species, but still recreate the dynamics of the original $S$-species model. This type of model reduction does not yield a model that is computationally easier to solve. However, under some conditions this reduction can be completed exactly, such that the information in the reduced model is exactly the same as the original one, but over fewer equations.

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