1984
DOI: 10.1007/bf00277748
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On the stability of the cell size distribution

Abstract: Abstract. A model for the growth of a size-structured cell population reproducing by fission into two identical daughters is formulated and analysed. The model takes the form of a linear first order partial differential equation (balance law) in which one term has a transformed argument. Using semigroup theory and compactness arguments we establish the existence of a stable size distribution under a certain condition on the growth rate of the individuals. An example shows that one cannot dispense with this con… Show more

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“…Simulations showed that constant and quadratic forms of growth achieved balanced time-invariant growth states using equal and unequal partitioning. Under conditions of linear growth and equal partitioning, however, the population distribution appeared to have a periodic behaviour, a special case originally predicted in theory by Diekmann et al (1984) described as a 'multiplication machine'. In all the remaining cases, unequal division resulted in balanced growth being achieved faster and with broader distribution.…”
Section: Nð0 Tþ ¼ 0 ð6þmentioning
confidence: 81%
“…Simulations showed that constant and quadratic forms of growth achieved balanced time-invariant growth states using equal and unequal partitioning. Under conditions of linear growth and equal partitioning, however, the population distribution appeared to have a periodic behaviour, a special case originally predicted in theory by Diekmann et al (1984) described as a 'multiplication machine'. In all the remaining cases, unequal division resulted in balanced growth being achieved faster and with broader distribution.…”
Section: Nð0 Tþ ¼ 0 ð6þmentioning
confidence: 81%
“…Another immediate consequence of (13) Let P be defined by (8) and denote by A b a the differential operator −(gN ) − μN restricted to the domain…”
Section: Formulation Of the Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…We note that due to (8) and the domain of definition of P , the function Ff is locally integrable on [a, 1) for any f ∈ L ∞ [a, 1]. The following lemma gathers some properties of the operator F .…”
Section: Proposition 1 the Operator B Has An Eigenvector W Which Satimentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Models that do distinguish between growth in biomass and growth in cell number must include separate mechanisms for describing cell growth and fission. Such size-structured models were first developed by Sinko and Streifer [22,23], Bell [3] and Bell and Anderson [4] and were later modified and investigated extensively by Diekmann et al [7,8] and Metz and Diekmann [17].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%