Dynamic bounds on stochastic chemical kinetic systems using semidefinite programming

Title

Dynamic bounds on stochastic chemical kinetic systems using semidefinite programming

Publication Type
Journal Article
Year of Publication
2018
Journal
The Journal of Chemical Physics
Volume
149
Issue
7
Pagination
074103
Abstract

Applying the method of moments to the chemical master equation appearing in stochastic chemical kinetics often leads to the so-called closure problem. Recently, several authors showed that this problem can be partially overcome using moment-based semidefinite programs (SDPs). In particular, they showed that moment-based SDPs can be used to calculate rigorous bounds on various descriptions of the stochastic chemical kinetic system’s stationary distribution(s)—for example, mean molecular counts, variances in these counts, and so on. In this paper, we show that these ideas can be extended to the corresponding dynamic problem, calculating time-varying bounds on the same descriptions.