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.
Abstract-This note studies nonlinear systems evolving on manifolds with a finite number of asymptotically stable equilibria and a Lyapunov function which strictly decreases outside equilibrium points. If the linearizations at unstable equilibria have at least one eigenvalue with positive real part, then almost global asymptotic stability turns out to be robust with respect to sufficiently small disturbances in the L∞ norm. Applications of this result are shown in the study of almost global Input-toState stability.
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