Collapsing chaos

Authors

  • Pabel Shahrear Department of Mathematics, Shah Jalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet – 3114, Bangladesh
  • Leon Glass Department of Physiology, 3655 Promenade SirWilliam Osler, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3G1Y6
  • Roderick Edwards Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Victoria, P.O. Box 1700 STN CSC, Victoria, B.C. Canada

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11145/texts.2017.12.163

Abstract

Genetic networks play a fundamental role in the regulation and control of the development and function of organisms. A simple model of gene networks assumes that a gene can be switched on or off as regulatory inputs to the gene cross critical thresholds. In studies of dynamics of such networks, we found unusual dynamical behavior in which phase plane trajectories display irregular dynamics that shrink over long times. This observation leads us to identify a type of dynamics, that can be described as collapsing chaos, in which the Lyapunov exponent is positive, but points on the trajectory approach the origin in the long time limit.

Author Biography

Leon Glass, Department of Physiology, 3655 Promenade SirWilliam Osler, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3G1Y6

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Published

2017-12-21

Issue

Mathematical Methods and Models in Biosciences

Section

Conference Proceedings

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