Publications [#243889] of Ezra Miller

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Peer-reviewed journal articles published

1. with Gopalkrishnan, M; Miller, E; Shiu, A. "A geometric approach to the global attractor conjecture." SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems 13.2 (January, 2014): 758-797. (49 pages) [math.DS/1305.5303], [doi]
   (last updated on 2024/04/18)

   Abstract:
   This paper introduces the class of strongly endotactic networks, a subclass of the endotactic networks introduced by Craciun, Nazarov, and Pantea. The main result states that the global attractor conjecture holds for complex-balanced systems that are strongly endotactic: every trajectory with positive initial condition converges to the unique positive equilibrium allowed by conservation laws. This extends a recent result by Anderson for systems where the reaction diagram has only one linkage class (connected component). The results here are proved using differential inclusions, a setting that includes power-law systems. The key ideas include a perspective on reaction kinetics in terms of combinatorial geometry of reaction diagrams, a projection argument that enables analysis of a given system in terms of systems with lower dimension, and an extension of Birch's theorem, a well-known result about intersections of affine subspaces with manifolds parameterized by monomials.