2007/08/25 by Gheorghe Crăciun, Craciun, Gheorghe, Alicia Dickenstein +5 · 1 citation
Chemistry · Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Algebraic Geometry (math.AG) #Dynamical Systems (math.DS) #FOS: Mathematics #Molecular spectroscopy and chirality #Polynomial and algebraic computation #Quantum chaos and dynamical systems
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0708.3431
openalex publication_date 2007/08/25 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Toric dynamical systems are known as complex balancing mass action systems in the mathematical chemistry literature, where many of their remarkable properties have been established. They include as special cases all deficiency zero systems and all detailed balancing systems. One feature is that the steady state locus of a toric dynamical system is a toric variety, which has a unique point within each invariant polyhedron. We develop the basic theory of toric dynamical systems in the context of computational algebraic geometry and show that the associated moduli space is also a toric variety. It is conjectured that the complex balancing state is a global attractor. We prove this for detailed balancing systems whose invariant polyhedron is two-dimensional and bounded.