The necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of periodic orbits in a Lotka-Volterra system

Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications

Volumn 284, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 236-249

  Wang, Yuanshi ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Center manifold theorem for flows; Existence of periodic orbits; Hopf bifurcation; Lotka Volterra model of three species

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042353661     PISSN: 0022247X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-247X(03)00340-8     Document Type: Article

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