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Arun K. Sinha
Department of Mathematics, Dayalbagh Educational Institute, Agra, India
Email: arunsinha47@gmail.com
Abstract— The human behavior is a combination of several partner [1]. These feelings vary from person to person
feelings. There are two cases whether a person likes other and from time to time. Everyone has these feelings in
individual or not. The liking of an individual leads to love and their hearts but the ratio or percentage differs. It is clear
finally happiness. The feelings of love may be in different forms
that the feeling in human varies according to different
but here considered to be partners’ love. There are three aspects
of love for the partner: forgetting process (oblivion), the
conditions, which are not easy to study mathematically.
pleasure of being loved (return), and the reaction to the appeal For it different conditions and assumptions have to be
of the partner (instinct). Along with that the appeals and the applied therefore we need to move towards an
personalities of the two individuals do not vary in time. This interpretative world or to think for a model that can give
model proves that if the geometric mean reactive-ness to love is dynamics of human feelings and experiences specially
smaller than the geometric mean forgetting coefficient and the happiness and love. There are some examples of love
system is asymptotically stable if the ratio of appeals is greater one is stories of Romeo Juliet and other is the creation
than the reciprocal of ratio of mutual intensiveness coefficient. of Tajmahal. Not even in the modern society but also in
ancient time there were stories of Lord Krishna and
Index Terms— Differential equations, Human behavior,
Rowth-Hurwitz Criteria
Radha, Lord Krishna and Meera. The difference
between these two is that one assumes Him true lover
but other as her “everything” or she worships him. Also
I. INTRODUCTION no one can ignore the phrase “God is Love” [2]. It is
accepted in several religions. The Vedic literature
Today human behavior has become interesting topic to
describes the Absolute Truth as sat-cit-ananda vigraha,
study. Everyone is looking for techniques to study it
which means the personal form of eternal knowledge
accurately. It is true that studying it is not difficult task.
and bliss. And in the Taittiriya Upanishad (Second Valli,
This can be performed by psychologists very easily but
Seventh Anuvaka), the Absolute Truth is described as
studying it accurately or near to accuracy is not easy one.
concentrated ananda or bliss. And the absolute truth is
It is clear that accuracy can be achieved by mathematical
related with happiness which a man achieves whether it
analysis of psychologists study. For this we need to
is worldly love or with the Supreme Being. The
define human behavior in form of equations or we need
happiness is the emotion which is achieved either after
to form a model based upon different feelings taking
getting your love or after completing a desire. So there
account of different conditions. For example, love and
is a direct relationship between love (desire) and
hate are not two mutually exclusive events. A person can
happiness. Hence it is clear that happiness is
have both feelings simultaneously. Suppose a man likes
proportional to love. As we get a relationship between
some habits of his partner that are loved by him and some
the two quantities the mathematics come into the picture.
that are not liked are hated by him. So love and hate
Several scientists believed in this mathematics [3]. They
cannot be taken in different equations. Their combined
have tried to bind the behavioral science with
effect on ones feelings shows his behavior.
mathematics.
There are different feelings in one’s life; some of
The rest of the paper is organized as follows. Initially
them are happiness and sadness. There are several
existing research present in literature is presented in
factors affecting these feelings. Basically in
Section II. Here related models are explained. In Section
mathematical terms sadness is negative feeling of
III the model of consideration of this research which is an
happiness. If we assume ‘h’ is happiness factor then ‘-h’
improvement of the existing model is presented. In
is sadness factor and everyone tries to achieve greater
Section IV the solution of the model is explained. In
amount of ‘h’. Happiness can be achieved by external
order to find weather the solution presented obeys
feelings. Among inner feelings love is the most
stability conditions or not is tested in Section V. Finally
dominant feeling in an individual. The feeling in an
Section VI concludes the paper.
individual can be for his life, position, humanity or
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3. Romeo responds to each with the same romantic exhibit temporal oscillations in their love for one another,
style (same a and b). so that Romeo’s love R for Juliet is given by
4. Guinevere’s hate has the same effect on his d 2x dx
feelings for Juliet as does Juliet’s love, and vice 2
+β + ω 2 x = F (t )
versa. dt dt (1)
where,
Love triangle equations
β -Damping (rate of decay),
dR J
= aR J + b( J − G ) ω -Natural resonant frequency of oscillation (in units
dt of radians per unit time)
F(t) -External forces
dJ
= cR J + dJ dx
dt H= - Happiness
dt
dRG Without loss of generality, the frequency can be taken
= aRG + b(G − J )
dt as ω =1, which amounts to measuring time in units of
dG 1 . Equation (1) is the familiar expression for a
= eRG + fG ω
dt damped (if β > 0) harmonic oscillator describing many
• System is 4D (4 variables) phenomena such as a mass on a spring, a small-
• There are 6 parameters amplitude pendulum, or a resonant electrical circuit.
• System is is linear (no chaos) The feedback that allows oscillations is through Juliet’s
J. Wauer et.al [8] studied human romantic relationships reaction to Romeo’s love. This is the simplest
via system dynamics methodology. Starting point is a dynamical model for Romeo’s love and his resulting
time-invariant linear model of two individuals without happiness.
interaction with environment. Specifically, time-
dependent fluctuations both in the source terms and the III. THE PROPOSED MODEL
system parameters are introduced and examined in their
consequences where also more realistic non-linear The model of Rinaldi [5] does not consider the effect
modeling is proposed and analyzed. In reality, there are of learning and adaptation and synergism after living
short- and long-termed fluctuations of personal feelings together (in the case of arrange marriages in India, which
due to, for instance, biological cycles and varying stresses have succeeded over centuries). This suggests that the
from the daily job. While it is straightforward to emotional interaction of two individual must be
introduce such emotional patterns into the mathematical considered in the modeling process.
model, it is difficult to measure parameter values Further, emotion of a particular individual with respect
quantatively. to other cannot increase infinitely. Hence emotions may
For couples with all kinds of exotic feeling, a never-
ending list of new phenomena may be expected. However, vary; we assume that it is proportional to x1 x 2
the variability is to be expected to be more limited for Under the above assumption the following model is
couples of cautious individuals. One interesting effect is proposed
the cyclic change of love about a stationary center of dx1
steady love for a couple governed by linear state = −α 1 x1 + β1 x 2 + A2 + d1 x1 x 2
equations, or a so-called robust couple governed by dt
equations with nonlinear return functions. For a fragile dx 2
couple, there is second stable fixed point of stationary = −α 2 x 2 + β 2 x1 + A1 + d 2 x1 x 2
hate, and the cyclic behavior may occur about either of
dt (2)
the two centers. A more complex irregular motion pattern where,
surrounding both centers with alternating love and hate of x1 - measure of emotions of individual 1.
different time spans might appear during different time
x 2 -measure of emotions of individual 2.
periods, but it seems very seldom for cautious lover with
strong damping. α , β , A and d are constant and positive parameters.
Now we will analyze (2) using equilibrium analysis
Happiness Model
A sequence of models for the time evolution of one’s
happiness in response to external events is described. IV. SOLUTION OF THE PROPOSED MODEL
These models with added nonlinearities can produce The model is given as
stable oscillations and chaos even without external events.
Potential implications for psychotherapy and a personal
approach to life are discussed. It was proved by Sprott [1]
in this paper that even the simplest linear case, can
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1 −k +l
x1 = [−( A1d1 + β1β2 − A2 d2 − α1α2 ) X 1 = x1 − ( )
2(d2α1 + β2 d1 ) m
and
± {(A2 d2 ) + (β1β2 ) + ( A1d1 ) + (α1α2 )
2 2 2 2
k +l
X 2 = x2 − ( )
− 2β1β2 A1d1 − 2A2 d2α1α2 − 2A1d1α1α2 n
− 2β1β2 A2 d2 − 4d1α2 A2 β2 − 4A1α1β1d2 }1/ 2 ] Substituting these values in the original model and
linearizing we get,
and
x2 =
1
[−( A2 d 2 + β1 β 2 − A1 d1 − α 1α 2 ) d 2 X1 dX
+ a1 1 + a 2 X 1 + r = 0
2(d1α 2 + β1 d 2 ) dt 2
dt
± {( A2 d 2 ) 2 + ( β1 β 2 ) 2 + ( A1 d1 ) 2 + (α 1α 2 ) 2 where,
− 2β1 β 2 A1 d1 − 2 A2 d 2α 1α 2 − 2 A1 d1α 1α 2 k +l
a1 = α 1 − d 1 ( )
− 2β1 β 2 A2 d 2 − 4d1α 2 A2 β 2 − 4 A1α 1 β1 d 2 }1 / 2 ] n
l−k
Substituting the given values in the above x1 and x 2 a 2 = − β 12 − β 1 d 2 ( ) p + β 1α 2 p
m
k = A1 d 1 + β 1 β 2 − A2 d 2 − α 1α 2 l−k k +l l−k
+ d 1α 2 p ( ) − β 1d 2 p ( ) − β 1d 1 p ( )
l = [( A2 d 2 ) 2 + ( β 1 β 2 ) 2 + ( A1 d 1 ) 2 + (α 1α 2 ) 2 m n m
− 2 β 1 β 2 A1 d 1 − 2 A2 d 2α 1α 2 − 2 A1 d 1α 1α 2 k +l l−k l−k 2
− d 1d 2 ( )( ) − d 1d 2 p ( )
− 2 β 1 β 2 A2 d 2 − 4d 1α 2 A2 β 2 − 4 A1α 1 β 1 d 2 ]1 / 2 n m m
It can be calculated that,
m = 2(d 1α 2 + β 1 d 2 )
a1 < 0 a2 < 0
n = 2(d 2α 1 + β 2 d 1 ) and (8)
k , l , m, n > 0 Using Routh-Hurwitz criteria we get,
We get, ⎡a1 1⎤
⎢0 a 2 ⎥⎦
−k ±l ⎣
x1 = (9)
m (5) Therefore by (8) and (9),
and
k ±l a1 a 2 > 0
x2 =
n (6) Hence the equilibrium points given by equation (7) are
unstable.
V. STABILITY ANALYSIS Further it may be calculated that if
In order to study stability of these equilibrium points (1) d 1 > d 2 and
we use some assumptions:
x2
(1) α 1α 2 > 2β1 β 2 (2) p = >1
x1
(2) A1 d 1 > 2 A2 d 2
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Then, Then ,
a2 > 0 a2 > 0
Therefore, Therefore,
a1 a 2 < 0 a1 a 2 < 0
Hence we get asymptotically stable system. Hence we get asymptotically stable system.
2. Case 2 3. Case 3:
Let us consider the values Let us consider the values
−k −l −k +l
x1 = , x1 = ,
m m
k +l k −l
x2 = x2 =
n (10) n (13)
For stability analysis we have, For stability analysis we have,
−k −l −k −l
X 1 = x1 − ( ), X 1 = x1 − ( ),
m m
and
and
k +l k +l
X 2 = x2 − ( ) X 2 = x2 − ( )
n n
Substituting these in the original model and linearizing
Substituting these values in the original model and
we get,
linearizing we get,
d 2 X1 dX d 2 X1
2
+ a1 1 + a 2 X 1 + r = 0 dX
+ a1 1 + a 2 X 1 + r = 0
dt dt 2
dt
where,
dt
where,
k +l
a1 = α 1 − d1 ( ) k − l
n a1 = α 1 − d 1 ( )
n
k +l 2 k +l
a 2 = − β12 − β 1 d1 ( ) + β1 d1 ( ) l − k l − k
n m a 2 = − β 1α 2 p − β 1 d 2 p ( ) + d 1α 2 p ( )
n m
k +l 2 k +l l − k 2 l − k
+ d12 ( ) + β1α 2 p + β1 d 2 p ( ) − d 1d 2 p ( ) − β 12 + β 1 d 2 ( )
n m m n
k +l k +l 2 l − k l − k 2
− d1α 2 p( ) − d1 d 2 p( ) − d1β 1 p ( ) + d 1d 2 p ( )
m m m mn
It can be calculated that,
It can be calculated that,
a1 > 0 a2 < 0
a1 < 0 and a2 < 0 (11)
and (14)
Using Routh-Hurwitz criteria we get,
Using Routh-Hurwitz criteria we get
⎡a1 1⎤
⎡a1 1⎤
⎢0
⎢0 a 2 ⎥⎦
⎣ a 2 ⎥⎦ ⎣ (15)
(12)
Therefore by (14) and (15),
Therefore by (11) and (12),
a1 a 2 < 0
a1 a 2 > 0
Hence, the system is asymptotically stable.
Hence the equilibrium points given by equation (10)
are unstable. 4. Case4:
Further it may be calculated that if
Let us consider the values
d1 > p (α 2 + d 2 )
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−k −l A1 d1
x1 = , (2) A1 d1 > A2 d (= > )
m A2 d 2
k −l (1) tells that the system is asymptotically stable if the
x2 =
n (16) (geometric) mean reactive-ness to love β1 β 2 is
smaller than the (geometric) mean forgetting coefficient
For stability analysis we have,
α 1α 2 .
−k −l
X 1 = x1 − ( ), (2) tells that the system is asymptotically stable if the
m A1
ratio of appeals is greater than the reciprocal of ratio
and A2
k +l d
X 2 = x2 − ( ) of mutual intensiveness coefficient 1 .
n d2
Substituting these values in the original model and The stability of proposed model shows that the effect
linearizing we get, of learning and adaptation and synergism after living
together is an important factor. Hence it can be concluded
d 2 X1 dX that in arrange marriages the emotional interaction of two
2
+ a1 1 + a 2 X 1 + r = 0 individuals plays an important role in modeling.
dt dt Although it is clear that emotion of a particular individual
where, with respect to other cannot increase infinitely. But there
k −l is existence of learning and adaptation.
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