TY - JOUR
T1 - Is My System of ODEs k-Cooperative?
AU - Weiss, Eyal
AU - Margaliot, Michael
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2021/1
Y1 - 2021/1
N2 - A linear dynamical system is called positive if its flow maps the non-negative orthant to itself. More precisely, it maps the set of vectors with zero sign variations to itself. A linear dynamical system is called k -positive if its flow maps the set of vectors with up to k-1 sign variations to itself. A nonlinear dynamical system is called k -cooperative if its variational system, which is a time-varying linear dynamical system, is k -positive. These systems have special asymptotic properties. For example, it was recently shown that strong 2-cooperative systems satisfy a strong Poincaré-Bendixson property. Positivity and k -positivity are easy to verify in terms of the sign-pattern of the matrix in the dynamics. However, these sign conditions are not invariant under a coordinate transformation. A natural question is to determine if a given n -dimensional system is k -positive up to a coordinate transformation. We study this problem for two special kinds of transformations: permutations and scaling by a signature matrix. For any ngeq 4 and kin {2, {dots }, n-2} , we provide a graph-theoretic necessary and sufficient condition for k -positivity up to such coordinate transformations. We describe an application of our results to a specific class of Lotka-Volterra systems.
AB - A linear dynamical system is called positive if its flow maps the non-negative orthant to itself. More precisely, it maps the set of vectors with zero sign variations to itself. A linear dynamical system is called k -positive if its flow maps the set of vectors with up to k-1 sign variations to itself. A nonlinear dynamical system is called k -cooperative if its variational system, which is a time-varying linear dynamical system, is k -positive. These systems have special asymptotic properties. For example, it was recently shown that strong 2-cooperative systems satisfy a strong Poincaré-Bendixson property. Positivity and k -positivity are easy to verify in terms of the sign-pattern of the matrix in the dynamics. However, these sign conditions are not invariant under a coordinate transformation. A natural question is to determine if a given n -dimensional system is k -positive up to a coordinate transformation. We study this problem for two special kinds of transformations: permutations and scaling by a signature matrix. For any ngeq 4 and kin {2, {dots }, n-2} , we provide a graph-theoretic necessary and sufficient condition for k -positivity up to such coordinate transformations. We describe an application of our results to a specific class of Lotka-Volterra systems.
KW - Positive systems
KW - graph theory
KW - invariant sets
KW - k-cooperative systems
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U2 - 10.1109/LCSYS.2020.2999870
DO - 10.1109/LCSYS.2020.2999870
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AN - SCOPUS:85091102054
SN - 2475-1456
VL - 5
SP - 73
EP - 78
JO - IEEE Control Systems Letters
JF - IEEE Control Systems Letters
IS - 1
M1 - 9107214
ER -