Relaxation oscillations in a class of predator-prey systems

Journal of Differential Equations

Volumn 188, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 306-331

  Liu, Weishi ^a   Xiao, Dongmei ^b   Yi, Yingfei ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b CENTRAL CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Predator prey systems; Relaxation oscillation; Singular perturbation; Stability

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037429351     PISSN: 00220396     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-0396(02)00076-1     Document Type: Article

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