A graph-theoretic approach to the method of global Lyapunov functions

Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society

Volumn 136, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2793-2802

  Guo, Hongbin ^a,b   Li, Michael Y ^a   Shuai, Zhisheng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Global stability; Graph theory; Lyapunov functions; Multi group epidemic models

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349388314     PISSN: 00029939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-08-09341-6     Document Type: Article

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