Persistence of Delayed Complex Balanced Chemical Reaction Networks

Abstract

In this paper, we derive two sufficient conditions to diagnose the persistence of two classes of delayed complex balanced chemical reaction network systems equipped with mass-action kinetics. One class is identified by $\dim Z_W=\dim\mathscr{S}-1$ ($Z_W$ is defined by \ref{eq:g} while $\mathscr{S}$ is the stoichiometric subspace of the network), the other class is identified through $\dim Z_W=0$ for any semilocking species set $W$ in the network. Then we also derive that delayed complex balanced systems with 2-d stoichiometric subspace are persistent. The results recur those proposed by Anderson et al. [D. F. Anderson, \textit{SIAM J. Appl. Math.}, 68 (2008), pp. 1464-1476; D. F. Anderson and A. Shiu, \textit{SIAM J. Appl. Math.}, 70 (2010), pp. 1840-1858] for checking the persistence of complex balanced reaction network systems without time delay. Further, we prove the above mentioned two classes of network systems are globally asymptotically stable at the corresponding positive equilibrium if the trajectory starts from a positive initial function. We illustrate the analysis by two numerical examples.