About existence of the limit to the average time profit in stochastic models of harvesting a renewable resource
- Authors: Chernikova A.V.1
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Affiliations:
- Vladimir State University
- Issue: Vol 27, No 140 (2022)
- Pages: 386-404
- Section: Original articles
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/2686-9667/article/view/296498
- ID: 296498
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Abstract
We investigate population dynamics models given by difference equations with stochastic parameters. In the absence of harvesting, the development of the population at time points $k=1,2,\ldots$ is given by the equation $X(k+1)=f\big(X(k)\big),$ where $X(k)$ is amount of renewable resource, $f(x)$ is a real differentiable function. It is assumed that at times $k=1,2,\ldots$ a random fraction $\omega\in[0,1]$ of the population is harvested. The harvesting process stops when at the moment $k$ the share of the collected resource becomes greater than a certain value $u(k)\in[0,1),$ in order to save a part of the population for reproduction and to increase the size of the next harvest. In this case, the share of the extracted resource is equal to $\ell(k)=\min\big\{\omega(k),u(k)\big\}, k=1,2,\ldots.$ Then the model of the exploited population has the form
where $x(0)$ is the initial population size.
For the stochastic population model, we study the problem of choosing a control $\overline{u}=(u(1),\ldots,u(k),\ldots)$ that limits at each time moment $k$ the share
of the extracted resource and under which the limit of the average
time profit function
exists and can be estimated from below with probability one
by as a large number as possible.
If the equation $X(k+1)=f\big(X(k)\big)$ has a solution of the form $X(k)\equiv x^*,$
then this solution is called the equilibrium position of the equation.
For any $k=1,2,\ldots,$ we consider random variables $A(k+1,x)=f\bigl((1-\ell(k))A(k,x)\bigr),$ $B(k+1,x^*)=f\bigl((1-\ell(k))B(k,x^*)\bigr)$; here $A(1,x)=f(x),$ $B(1,x^*)=x^*.$
It is shown that when certain conditions are met, there exists a control $\overline{u}$
under which there holds the estimate of the average time profit
where $M$ denotes the mathematical expectation.
In addition, the conditions for the existence of control $\overline{u}$ are obtained
under which there exists, with probability one, a positive limit to the
average time profit equal to
About the authors
Anastasia V. Chernikova
Vladimir State University
Author for correspondence.
Email: nastik.e@bk.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-3930-0743
Post-Graduate Student, Functional Analysis and its Applications Department
Russian Federation, 87 Gorky St., Vladimir 600000, Russian FederationReferences
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