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7.3. Applications of Spectral Theory 377<br />

We can see that the numbers we calculated <strong>in</strong> Example 7.34 for the populations after the 10 th unit of<br />

time are not far from the long term values.<br />

Consider another example.<br />

Example 7.38: Populations After a Long Time<br />

Suppose a migration matrix is given by<br />

⎡<br />

A =<br />

⎢<br />

⎣<br />

⎤<br />

1 1 1<br />

5 2 5<br />

1 1 1 4 4 2<br />

⎥<br />

11 1 3 ⎦<br />

20 4 10<br />

F<strong>in</strong>d the comparison between the populations <strong>in</strong> the three locations after a long time.<br />

Solution. In order to compare the populations <strong>in</strong> the long term, we want to f<strong>in</strong>d the steady state vector X s .<br />

Solve<br />

⎛<br />

⎡<br />

⎞<br />

1 1 1 ⎡ ⎤ 5 2 5<br />

⎡ ⎤ ⎡ ⎤<br />

1 0 0<br />

⎣ 0 1 0 ⎦ 1 1 1 x 1s 0<br />

−<br />

4 4 2<br />

⎣ x 2s<br />

⎦ = ⎣ 0 ⎦<br />

⎜<br />

⎢ ⎥⎟<br />

⎝ 0 0 1 ⎣ ⎦⎠<br />

x 3s 0<br />

11<br />

20<br />

1<br />

4<br />

3<br />

10<br />

⎤<br />

The augmented matrix and the result<strong>in</strong>g reduced row-echelon form are given by<br />

⎡<br />

⎤<br />

4<br />

5<br />

− 1 2<br />

− 1 5<br />

0<br />

⎡<br />

− 1 3<br />

4 4<br />

− 1 1 0 − 16 ⎤<br />

19<br />

0<br />

2<br />

0<br />

⎢<br />

→···→⎣<br />

0 1 −<br />

⎢<br />

⎥<br />

18 ⎥<br />

19<br />

0 ⎦<br />

⎣<br />

− 11<br />

20<br />

− 1 7<br />

4 10<br />

0<br />

⎦<br />

0 0 0 0<br />

and so an eigenvector is<br />

⎡<br />

⎣<br />

16<br />

18<br />

19<br />

⎤<br />

⎦<br />

Therefore, the proportion of population <strong>in</strong> location 2 to location 1 is given by 18<br />

16<br />

. The proportion of<br />

population 3 to location 2 is given by 19<br />

18 . ♠

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