Limits of heteroclinic orbits in a competitive model with genetic variation (Q1174942): Difference between revisions

The competition between two populations, one of which has genetic variation, is modelled by a system of three autonomous differential equations of roughly Lotka-Volterra type. On one allele frequency fixation plane the dynamical behaviour is that of stable coexistence, but on the other plane mutual exclusion applies. There are heteroclinic orbits connecting these planes, approaching equilibria which depend on a crowding parameter. For a critical value of this parameter there exists a line of polymorphic equilibria, which is shown to play an important role in the heteroclinic bifurcation occurring at critical values of the parameter.