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Unsustainable zip-bifurcation in a predator–prey model involving discrete delay

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 December 2013

Jocirei D. Ferreira  and
V. Sree Hari Rao
Jocirei D. Ferreira
Affiliation:
Federal University of Mato Grosso, Institute of Exact and Earth Science, Barra do Garcas, Mato Grosso, Brazil (jocirei@ufmt.br)
V. Sree Hari Rao
Affiliation:
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Department of Mathematics, Hyderabad 500 085, India
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Abstract

A third-order system of ordinary differential equations, modelling two predators competing for a single prey species, is analysed in this paper. A delay term modelling the delayed logistic growth of the prey is included. Fixed points of the system are identified, and a linearized stability analysis is carried out. For some parameter regime, there exists a continuum of equilibria and these equilibria may undergo a zip bifurcation. The main results presented herein are that this zip bifurcation is ‘unsustainable’ for certain ranges of values of the time-delay parameter. Finally, spatial diffusion is incorporated in the delay differential equation model, and it is shown that the zip bifurcation remains unsustainable.

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Research Article
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A: Mathematics , Volume 143 , Issue 6 , December 2013 , pp. 1209 - 1236
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 2013 

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