“…To do this, we need to rewrite vr in a more suitable form. Introduce the notation X (1) (t) = (X 1 (t), X 2 (0), X 3 (0)), X (2) (t) = (X 1 (0), X 2 (2), X 3 (0)) and X (3) (t) = (X 1 (0), X 2 (0), X 3 (t)) for each t ≥ 0. We define ρ (i) to be the absorption time of X i , that is,…”