Twisted and nontwisted bifurcations induced by diffusion |
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Authors: | Xiao-Biao Lin |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Mathematics, North Carolina State University, 27695-8205 Raleigh, North Carolina |
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Abstract: | We discuss a diffusively perturbed predator-prey system. Freedman and Wolkowicz showed that the corresponding ODE can have a periodic solution that bifurcates from a homoclinic loop. When the diffusion coefficients are large, this solution represents a stable, spatially homogeneous time-periodic solution of the PDE. We show that when the diffusion coefficients become small, the spatially homogeneous periodic solution becomes unstable and bifurcates into spatially nonhomogeneous periodic solutions. The nature of the bifurcation is determined by the twistedness of an equilibrium/homoclinic bifurcation that occurs as the diffusion coefficients decrease. In the nontwisted case two spatially nonhomogeneous simple periodic solutions of equal period are generated, while in the twisted case a unique spatially nonhomogeneous double periodic solution is generated through period-doubling. |
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Keywords: | Reaction-diffusion equations predator-prey systems homoclinic bifurcations periodic solutions |
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