A Global Convergence Result for Strongly Monotone Systems with Positive Translation Invariance

We show that strongly monotone systems of ordinary differential equations which have a certain translation-invariance property are so that all solutions converge to a unique equilibrium. The result may be seen as a dual of a well-known theorem of Mierczynski for systems that satisfy a conservation law. An application to a reaction of interest in biochemistry is provided as an illustration.

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