Mathematics – Algebraic Geometry
Scientific paper
2011-09-23
Mathematics
Algebraic Geometry
Version updated, including change of title. Previous title: "Injectivity of chemical reaction networks with mass-action kineti
Scientific paper
We provide a Jacobian criterion that applies to arbitrary chemical reaction networks taken with mass-action kinetics to preclude the existence of multiple positive steady states within any stoichiometric class for any choice of rate constants. We are concerned with the characterization of injective networks, that is, networks for which the species formation rate function is injective in the interior of the positive orthant within each stoichiometric class. We show that a network is injective if and only if the determinant of the Jacobian of a certain function does not vanish. The function consists of components of the species formation rate function and a maximal set of independent conservation laws. The determinant of the function is a polynomial in the species concentrations and the rate constants (linear in the latter) and its coefficients are fully determined. The criterion also precludes the existence of degenerate steady states. Further, we relate injectivity of a chemical reaction network to that of the chemical reaction network obtained by adding outflow, or degradation, reactions for all species.
Feliu Elisenda
Wiuf Carsten
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