Coupling Through Emergent Conservation Laws (Part 2)

joint post with Jonathan Lorand, Blake Pollard, and Maru Sarazola

In what follows, we will be working with reaction networks. A reaction network consists of a set of reactions, for example

Here X, Y and XY are the species involved, and we interpret this reaction as species X and Y combining to form species XY. We call X and Y the reactants and XY the product. Additive combinations of species, such as X + Y, are called complexes

The law of mass action states that the rate at which a reaction...