Homoclinic orbits in a disease transmission model with nonlinear incidence and nonconstant population

Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series B

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 299-309

  Derrick, W R ^a   Van den Driessche, P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Epidemiological model; Homoclinic loop bifurcation; Hopf bifurcation; Nonlinear incidence function; Saddle node bifurcation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0043263962     PISSN: 15313492     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3934/dcdsb.2003.3.299     Document Type: Article

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