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Uniqueness for a Competing Species Model

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Leonid Mytnik*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, The University of British Columbia, Room 121, 1984 Mathematics Road, Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z2 email: lmytnik@math.ubc.ca
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Abstract

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We show that a martingale problem associated with a competing species model has a unique solution. The proof of uniqueness of the solution for the martingale problem is based on duality technique. It requires the construction of dual probability measures.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1999

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