A new proof of the competitive exclusion principle in the chemostat

Alain Rapaport; Mario Veruete

doi:10.3934/dcdsb.2018314

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2019, Volume 24, Issue 8: 3755-3764. Doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2018314

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A new proof of the competitive exclusion principle in the chemostat

Alain Rapaport^1, , and
Mario Veruete^2,

1.
MISTEA, Univ. Montpellier, Inra, Montpellier SupAgro, 2, place Pierre Viala, 34060 Montpellier, France
2.
IMAG, Univ. Montpellier, CNRS, Place Eugène Bataillon, 34090 Montpellier, France

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Received: March 31, 2018

Revised: May 31, 2018

Early access: October 2018

Published: July 2019

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We give an new proof of the well-known competitive exclusion principle in the chemostat model with $N$ species competing for a single resource, for any set of increasing growth functions. The proof is constructed by induction on the number of the species, after being ordered. It uses elementary analysis and comparisons of solutions of ordinary differential equations.

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Figure 1. Growth functions and their break-even concentrations

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Figure 2. Illustration of the intervals $I_{i} = [s_1^-, s_i^+]$ for $i\in\{1, \cdots, N-1\}$ (in green, the values of the break-even concentrations $\lambda_{i}$, in orange, the nested intervals $I_{i}$)

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