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Positive solutions of a renewal equation

Janusz Traple (1992)

Annales Polonici Mathematici

An existence theorem is proved for the scalar convolution type integral equation x ( t ) = - h ( t - s ) f ( s , x ( s ) ) d s .

Possibly Longest Food Chain: Analysis of a Mathematical Model

T. Matsuoka, H. Seno (2008)

Mathematical Modelling of Natural Phenomena

We consider the number of trophic levels in a food chain given by the equilibrium state for a simple mathematical model with ordinary differential equations which govern the temporal variation of the energy reserve in each trophic level. When a new trophic level invades over the top of the chain, the chain could lengthen by one trophic level. We can derive the condition that such lengthening could occur, and prove that the possibly longest chain is globally stable. In some specific cases,...

Propagation of Growth Uncertainty in a Physiologically Structured Population

H.T. Banks, S. Hu (2012)

Mathematical Modelling of Natural Phenomena

In this review paper we consider physiologically structured population models that have been widely studied and employed in the literature to model the dynamics of a wide variety of populations. However in a number of cases these have been found inadequate to describe some phenomena arising in certain real-world applications such as dispersion in the structure variables due to growth uncertainty/variability. Prompted by this, we described two recent...

Random coefficients bifurcating autoregressive processes

Benoîte de Saporta, Anne Gégout-Petit, Laurence Marsalle (2014)

ESAIM: Probability and Statistics

This paper presents a new model of asymmetric bifurcating autoregressive process with random coefficients. We couple this model with a Galton−Watson tree to take into account possibly missing observations. We propose least-squares estimators for the various parameters of the model and prove their consistency, with a convergence rate, and asymptotic normality. We use both the bifurcating Markov chain and martingale approaches and derive new results in both these frameworks.

Rational Constants of Generic LV Derivations and of Monomial Derivations

Janusz Zieliński (2013)

Bulletin of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Mathematics

We describe the fields of rational constants of generic four-variable Lotka-Volterra derivations. Thus, we determine all rational first integrals of the corresponding systems of differential equations. Such systems play a role in population biology, laser physics and plasma physics. They are also an important part of derivation theory, since they are factorizable derivations. Moreover, we determine the fields of rational constants of a class of monomial derivations.

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