Unimodality of steady size distributions of growing cell populations

Costa, Fernando Pestana da; Grinfeld, Michael; McLeod, J. B.

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Costa, Fernando Pestana da

Grinfeld, Michael

McLeod, J. B.

Abstract(s)

We consider an equation for the evolution of growing and dividing cells, and show, using a result of Kato and McLeod, that the probability density function for the stationary size distribution is necessarily unimodal.

Keywords

Population dynamics Unimodality of population distributions

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http://hdl.handle.net/10400.2/1485

Citation

Costa, Fernando Pestana da; Grinfeld, Michael; McLeod, J. B. - Unimodality of steady size distributions of growing cell populations. "Journal of Evolution Equations" [Em linha]. ISSN 1424-3199 (Print) 1424-3202 (Online). Vol. 1 (2001), p. 405-409