Periodic solutions of nonautonomous differential systems modeling obesity population

Chaos, Solitons and Fractals

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 1234-1244

  Arenas, Abraham J ^a   González Parra, Gilberto ^b   Jódar, Lucas ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE CÓRDOBA   (Colombia)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Venezuela)

^c UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; NUTRITION;

COINCIDENCE DEGREE THEORY; CONTINUATION THEOREM; DIFFERENTIAL SYSTEMS; NON-AUTONOMOUS SYSTEM; NONLINEAR ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION; OBESE POPULATION; PERIODIC POSITIVE SOLUTION; PERIODIC SOLUTION;

ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

EID: 67649861364     PISSN: 09600779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chaos.2009.03.029     Document Type: Article

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