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Bistability and Oscillatory Behaviours of Cyclic Feedback Loops

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In this paper, we study the stability of an Ordinary Differential Equation (ODE) usually referred to as Cyclic Feedback Loop, which typically models a biological network of \(d\) molecules where each molecule regulates its successor in a cycle (\(A_{1}\rightarrow A_{2}\rightarrow \cdots \rightarrow A_{d-1} \rightarrow A_{d} \rightarrow A_{1}\)). Regulations, which can be either positive or negative, are modelled by increasing or decreasing functions. We make an analysis of this model for a wide range of functions (including affine and Hill functions) by determining the parameters for which bistability and oscillatory behaviours arise. These results encompass previous theoretical studies of gene regulatory networks, which are particular cases of this model.

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  1. It is in fact sufficient to assume that these two functions are convex, and that at least one of them is strictly convex.

  2. In the Appendix of [12] we show that many other usual sigmoid functions are strictly \(\gamma ^{1/2}-\)convex.

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The author thanks Nastassia Pouradier Duteil and Camille Pouchol for their proofreading and their guidance throughout the writing of this paper.

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Guilberteau, J. Bistability and Oscillatory Behaviours of Cyclic Feedback Loops. Acta Appl Math 188, 6 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10440-023-00618-x

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