Title
Existence of periodic solutions in a nonautonomous food web with Beddington-DeAngelis functional response.
Abstract
In this paper, we investigate the existence of positive T-periodic solutions in a food web with one predator feeding on n preys by Leray–Schauder degree theory, which plays a significant role on further studying the uniqueness of limit cycles of this food web model. We start with a series of required spaces and operators and construct a bounded open set Ω over which the corresponding Leray–Schauder degree can be well-defined. Afterwards, by the invariance property of homotopy, we verify that the Leray–Schauder degree is not equal to 0 under certain conditions, thus implying the existence of positive T-periodic solutions. Finally, a numerical example is presented to illustrate our result.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1016/j.aml.2017.03.018
Applied Mathematics Letters
Keywords
Field
DocType
Nonautonomous food web,Positive periodic solutions,Leray–Schauder degree
Uniqueness,Invariant (physics),Mathematical analysis,Functional response,Operator (computer programming),Homotopy,Periodic graph (geometry),Mathematics,Bounded function,Open set
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
71
0893-9659
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.55
3
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xin Jiang171.62
gang meng245.39
zhikun she324222.74