Three Limit Cycles for a Three-Dimensional Lotka-Volterra Competitive System with a Heteroclinic Cycle

Computers and Mathematics with Applications

Volumn 46, Issue 2-3, 2003, Pages 231-238

  Lu, Zhengyi ^a,b   Luo, Yong ^c  

^a WENZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF SYSTEMS SCIENCE   (China)

Author keywords

Competitive; Hopf bifurcation; Limit cycles; Lotka Volterra systems

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; LYAPUNOV METHODS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION; THEOREM PROVING;

LIMIT CYCLES;

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS);

EID: 0141639679     PISSN: 08981221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0898-1221(03)90027-7     Document Type: Article

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