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Re: Finding Fixed Points for a Nonlinear System of equations

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  • Subject: [mg42871] Re: [mg42862] Finding Fixed Points for a Nonlinear System of equations
  • From: Selwyn Hollis <selwynh at earthlink.net>
  • Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 01:47:56 -0400 (EDT)
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Katherine,

I think you need to be more specific about what you want to do. It is 
not clear what you mean by "the fixed points" of a system of 
differential equations. Perhaps you mean the equilibrium/critical 
points??

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Selwyn Hollis
http://www.math.armstrong.edu/faculty/hollis


On Wednesday, July 30, 2003, at 07:31  PM, Katherine Gurdziel wrote:

> I am trying to isolate the fixed points for five differential 
> equations that
> are dependent on each other.  I have experimented with using NDSolve 
> but am
> having problems finding the fixed points.  Specifically, I need to be 
> able
> to solve the system without setting initial conditions and need to 
> find all
> of the fixed points.
> Could you make some suggestions about an approach that I could try to 
> solve
> this problem?
>
> Thank you very much.
>
> Katherine
>
>
>


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