1. Classify the coupling regime of this rate matrix using the two invasion inequalities, and state which fixed points are stable and which are unstable.
Answer: Test each invasion separately. Member 2 invades the pure state of member 1 because ; member 1 invades the pure state of member 2 because . Both invasions succeed, so the regime is mutual hypercyclic stabilization. Consequently the two pure states と are unstable, and the interior coexistence fixed point is the only stable state of the system.
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2. Compute the equilibrium composition (and hence ) and explain what happens to two cultures started at and at 。
Answer: For the interior fixed point, . Substituting the measured rates gives , so . Because both corners are unstable in this regime, neither culture loses a species: the culture started near pure drifts down and the culture started with very little drifts up, and both converge on the same stable coexistence mixture 。