Four limit cycles for a three-dimensional competitive Lotka-Volterra system with a heteroclinic cycle

Computers and Mathematics with Applications

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 649-669

  Gyllenberg, Mats ^a   Yan, Ping ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Carrying simplex; Competitive Lotka Volterra system; Heteroclinic cycle; Hopf Bifurcation; Limit cycles

Indexed keywords

A-CENTER; CARRYING SIMPLEX; COMPETITIVE LOTKA-VOLTERRA SYSTEM; EIGENVALUES; HETEROCLINIC CYCLE; HETEROCLINIC CYCLES; LIMIT CYCLE; LIMIT CYCLES; LOTKA-VOLTERRA EQUATIONS; LOTKA-VOLTERRA SYSTEMS; MULTIPLE LIMIT CYCLES; POSITIVE EQUILIBRIUM;

EQUIVALENCE CLASSES; FOCUSING; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; SET THEORY; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

HOPF BIFURCATION;

EID: 67649742957     PISSN: 08981221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.camwa.2009.03.111     Document Type: Article

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