Flux solutions for stochastic chemical systems with sources and sinks

Abstract

In this paper we study a class of stochastic chemical systems that, in general, do not satisfy the property of detailed balance nor the property of complex balance. These systems are obtained by adding sources and sinks to conservative chemical systems. This procedure is a way to define rigorously stochastic chemical systems in contact with reservoirs. We prove that these systems are non-explosive Markov chains and we prove that they converge to a steady state as time tends to infinity. The stationary solution are out of equilibrium solutions. We conclude the paper by applying our results in order to describe fluxes of molecules through some membrane channels.