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For many biological systems that have been modeled using continuous and discrete models, it has been shown that such models have similar dynamical properties. In this paper, we prove that this happens in more general cases. We show that under some conditions there is a bijection between the steady states of continuous and discrete models arising from biological systems. Our results also provide a novel method to analyze certain classes of nonlinear models using discrete mathematics.
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This work was supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant DMS-1004766.
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Veliz-Cuba, A., Arthur, J., Hochstetler, L. et al. On the Relationship of Steady States of Continuous and Discrete Models Arising from Biology. Bull Math Biol 74, 2779–2792 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11538-012-9778-1
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