On a Certain Semilinear Parabolic System Related to the Lotka-Volterra Ecological Model

  • Masayasu Mimura

    Meiji University, Kawasaki, Japan
  • Takaaki Nishida

    Kyoto University, Japan

Abstract

A mathematical model proposed to explain the horizontal structure of prey and predator populations is represented by a semilinear parabolic system of equations. In this paper some mixed problems for this kind of system, Lotka-Volterra system, are considered and asymptotic behaviors of the solutions are investigated by use of Energy Method. A remarkable fact is that, in opposition to Steele's conjecture (see [3]), the solution in the case of the Neumann boundary condition is asymptotically spatially homogeneous but does not tend to any constant steady state solution.

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Masayasu Mimura, Takaaki Nishida, On a Certain Semilinear Parabolic System Related to the Lotka-Volterra Ecological Model. Publ. Res. Inst. Math. Sci. 14 (1978), no. 2, pp. 269–282

DOI 10.2977/PRIMS/1195189063