Bifurcation analysis of the Nowak-Bangham model in CTL dynamics |
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Authors: | Chikahiro Egami |
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Institution: | Department of Digital Engineering, Numazu National College of Technology, 3600 Ooka, Numazu, Shizuoka 410-8501, Japan |
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Abstract: | This paper investigates the local bifurcations of a CTL response model published by Nowak and Bangham M.A. Nowak, C.R.M. Bangham, Population dynamics of immune responses to persistent viruses, Science 272 (1996) 74]. The Nowak-Bangham model can have three equilibria depending on the basic reproduction number, and generates a Hopf bifurcation through two bifurcations of equilibria. The main result shows a sufficient condition for the interior equilibrium to have a unique bifurcation point at which a simple Hopf bifurcation occurs. For this proof, some new techniques are developed in order to apply the method established by Liu W.M. Liu, Criterion of Hopf bifurcations without using eigenvalues, J. Math. Anal. Appl. 182 (1) (1994) 250]. In addition, to demonstrate the result obtained theoretically, some bifurcation diagrams are presented with numerical examples. |
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Keywords: | Hopf bifurcation Immune response Basic reproduction number |
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