Local and Global Properties of Nonautonomous Dynamical Systems and Their Application to Competition Models

We develop the inheritance principle for local properties by the global Poincare mapping of nonautonomous dynamical systems. Namely, if a semigroup property is uniformly locally universal then it is enjoyed by the global Poincare mapping. In studying the global dynamics of competitors in a periodic medium, the crucial role is played by the multiplicative semigroup of the so-called sign-invariant matrices. We give geometric criteria for stability of equilibria (periodic solutions) in competition models.