Quasi-Toric Differential Inclusions

Abstract

Toric differential inclusions play a pivotal role in providing a rigorous interpretation of the connection between weak reversibility and the persistence of mass-action systems and polynomial dynamical systems. We introduce the notion of quasi-toric differential inclusions, which are strongly related to toric differential inclusions, but have a much simpler geometric structure. We show that every toric differential inclusion can be embedded into a quasi-toric differential inclusion and that every quasi-toric differential inclusion can be embedded into a toric differential inclusion. In particular, this implies that weakly reversible dynamical systems can be embedded into quasi-toric differential inclusions.