
Yutong Duan
UI Chicago
Title
Algebraic independence of solutions of Lotka-Volterra equations
Abstract
Lotka-Volterra equations describe the dynamics of biological systems in which two species interact. Formally, the equations are a parameterized family of planar polynomial vector fields. They are also of interest as model theory by regarding solution sets as being definable in a monster model of the theory of differentially closed field of characteristic zero. I will show that under certain conditions on the parameters, the solutions sets are strongly minimal, geometrically trivial and strictly disintegrated (that is, generic solutions are algebraic independent).