Morphisms and automorphisms of skew-symmetric Lotka-Volterra systems

Abstract

We study the basic relation between skew-symmetric Lotka-Volterra systems and graphs, both at the level of objects and morphisms, and derive a classification from it of skew-symmetric Lotka-Volterra systems in terms of graphs as well as in terms of irreducible weighted graphs. We also obtain a description of their automorphism groups and of the relations which exist between these groups. The central notion introduced and used is that of decloning of graphs and of Lotka-Volterra systems. We also give a functorial interpretation of the results which we obtain.