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January  2020, 25(1): 1-29. doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2019170

Singular perturbations and scaling

Christian Lax and  Sebastian Walcher ,

Mathematik A, RWTH Aachen, 52056 Aachen, Germany

* Corresponding author

Received  October 2018 Revised  February 2019 Published  July 2019

Scaling transformations involving a small parameter (degenerate scalings) are frequently used for ordinary differential equations that model chemical reaction networks. They are motivated by quasi-steady state (QSS) of certain chemical species, and ideally lead to slow-fast systems for singular perturbation reductions, in the sense of Tikhonov and Fenichel. In the present paper we discuss properties of such scaling transformations, with regard to their applicability as well as to their determination. Transformations of this type are admissible only when certain consistency conditions are satisfied, and they lead to singular perturbation scenarios only if additional conditions hold, including a further consistency condition on initial values. Given these consistency conditions, two scenarios occur. The first (which we call standard) is well known and corresponds to a classical quasi-steady state (QSS) reduction. Here, scaling may actually be omitted because there exists a singular perturbation reduction for the unscaled system, with a coordinate subspace as critical manifold. For the second (nonstandard) scenario scaling is crucial. Here one may obtain a singular perturbation reduction with the slow manifold having dimension greater than expected from the scaling. For parameter dependent systems we consider the problem to find all possible scalings, and we show that requiring the consistency conditions allows their determination. This lays the groundwork for algorithmic approaches, to be taken up in future work. In the final section we consider some applications. In particular we discuss relevant nonstandard reductions of certain reaction-transport systems.

Keywords: Reaction networks, dimension reduction, invariant sets, critical manifold.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 92C45, 34E15; Secondary: 80A30, 13P10.
Citation: Christian Lax, Sebastian Walcher. Singular perturbations and scaling. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - B, 2020, 25 (1) : 1-29. doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2019170
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[16]

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[26]

L. Noethen and S. Walcher, Tikhonov's theorem and quasi-steady state, Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst. Ser. B, 16 (2011), 945-961.  doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2011.16.945.  Google Scholar

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O. Radulescu, S. Vakulenko and D. Grigoriev, Model reduction of biochemical reactions networks by tropical analysis methods, Math. Model. Nat. Phenom., 10 (2015), 124-138.  doi: 10.1051/mmnp/201510310.  Google Scholar

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S. S. Samal, D. Grigoriev, H. Fröhlich and O. Radulescu, Analysis of reaction network systems using tropical geometry, in Computer Algebra in Scientific ComputingComputer Algebra in Scientific Computing. 17th International Workshop, CASC 2015 (eds. V.P. Gerdt, W. Koepf, W.M. Seiler and E.V. Vorozhtsov), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 9301 (2015), Springer-Verlag, Cham, 424–439. Google Scholar

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A. N. Tikhonov, Systems of differential equations containing a small parameter multiplying the derivative (in Russian)., Math. Sb., 31 (1952), 575-586.   Google Scholar

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F. Verhulst, Methods and Applications of Singular Perturbations. Boundary Layers and Multiple Timescale Dynamics, Springer-Verlag, New York, 2005. doi: 10.1007/0-387-28313-7.  Google Scholar

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