Dynamics of a Heroin Epidemic Model with Very Population ()
Abstract
Based on the model provided by the Mulone and Straughan [1], we relax the population which are constant and obtain the drug-free equilibrium which is global asymptotically stable under some conditions. The system has only uniqueness positive endemic equilibrium which is globally asymptotically stable by using the second compound matrix.
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X. Wang, J. Yang and X. Li, "Dynamics of a Heroin Epidemic Model with Very Population,"
Applied Mathematics, Vol. 2 No. 6, 2011, pp. 732-738. doi:
10.4236/am.2011.26097.
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
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