Hierarchical size-structured populations: The linearized semigroup approach

Jozsef Zoltan Farkas , Thomas Hagen

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In the present paper we analyze the linear stability of a hierarchical size-structured population model where the vital rates (mortality, fertility and growth rate) depend both on size and a general functional of the population density ("environment"). We derive regularity properties of the governing linear semigroup, implying that linear stability is governed by a dominant real eigenvalue of the semigroup generator, which arises as a zero of an associated characteristic function. In the special case where neither the growth rate nor the mortality depend on the environment, we explicitly calculate the characteristic function and use it to formulate simple conditions for the linear stability of population equilibria. In the general case we derive a dissipativity condition for the linear semigroup, thereby characterizing exponential stability of the steady state.
Idioma originalAnglès
Pàgines (de-a)639-657
RevistaDiscrete Contin. Impuls. Syst. Ser. A Math. Anal
Volum17
Número5
Estat de la publicacióPublicada - 2010

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