Stochastic models for a chemostat and long time behavior

We introduce two stochastic chemostat models consisting in a coupled population-nutrient process reflecting the interaction between the nutrient and the bacterias in the chemostat with finite volume. The nutrient concentration evolves continuously but depending on the population size, while the population size is a birth and death process with coefficients depending on time through the nutrient concentration. The nutrient is shared by the bacteria and creates a regulation of the bacterial population size. The latter and the fluctuations due to the random births and deaths of individuals make the population go almost surely to extinction. Therefore, we are interested in the long time behavior of the bacterial population conditioned to the non-extinction. We prove the global existence of the process and its almost sure extinction. The existence of quasi-stationary distributions is obtained based on a general fixed point argument. Moreover, we prove the absolute continuity of the nutrient distribution when conditioned to a fixed number of individuals and the smoothness of the corresponding densities.

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Source https://hal.science/hal-00708680
Author Collet, Pierre, Martinez, Servet, Meleard, Sylvie, San Martin, Jaime
Maintainer CCSD
Last Updated May 15, 2026, 17:28 (UTC)
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Identifier hal-00708680
Language en
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contributor Centre de Physique Théorique (CPHT) ; École polytechnique (X) ; Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris)-Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
creator Collet, Pierre
date 2012-06-15T00:00:00
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harvest_source_title test moissonnage SELUNE
metadata_modified 2025-09-04T00:00:00
relation info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/arxiv/1206.3691
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