Abstract:
We obtain conditions for uniqueness of a cycle in the phase portrait of a piecewise linear dynamical system of the Elowitz–Leibler type which simulates the functioning of a simplest circular gene network. We describe the behavior of trajectories of this system in the invariant toric neighborhood of the cycle.
Keywords:circular gene network, positive and negative feedbacks, block-linear dynamical system, invariant domain, Poincaré map, fixed point, cycle.