MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS OF AN IMPROVED HEPATITIS B VIRUS MODEL

A hepatitis B virus (HBV) model with standard incidence and the uninfected cells growing logistically is investigated. By analyzing the corresponding characteristic equations, the local stability of the infection-free and infection equilibria is discussed, respectively. Further, the existence of an orbitally asymptotically stable periodic orbit is also studied. By means of the theory of competitive systems and compound matrices, sufficient conditions are derived for the global stability of the infection-free and infection equilibria, respectively. At last, numerical simulations are carried out to illustrate the main results.