Unimodality of steady size distributions of growing cell populations

• Autor(es): Costa, Fernando Pestana da ; Grinfeld, Michael ; McLeod, J. B.
• Data: 2001
• Identificador Persistente: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.2/1485
• Origem: Repositório Aberto da Universidade Aberta
• Assunto(s): Population dynamics; Unimodality of population distributions
• Tipo de Documento: Artigo
• Idioma: Inglês

Descrição

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.