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| Recent work by Banaji and collaborators shows that certain enlargements of reaction networks --through the addition of species and reactions-- preserve key dynamical properties such as multistationarity, oscillations, and bifurcations. This framework enables the use of certificates for specific behaviors (e.g., a supercritical Hopf bifurcation) by reducing analysis to smaller, more tractable subnetworks. In principle, this allows one to answer the question ``Does a network $\mathcal N$ exhibit dynamical property $X$? by identifying a smaller network $\mathcal M$ with property $X$ and a sequence of enlargements from $\mathcal M$ to $\mathcal N$.
In this talk, we investigate algorithms for tackling this combinatorially explosive problem and present real-world applications of inherited Hopf bifurcation in large enzymatic networks. |
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