Bifurcation analysis and control of Leslie-Gower predator-prey model with Michaelis-Menten type prey-harvesting (Q691347)

The authors investigate a Leslie-Gower predator-prey model with nonlinear prey harvesting of Holling type II, whose dimensionless form contains four positive parameters. Depending on these parameters, there exist at most three boundary equilibria on the nonnegative prey axis and two interior equilibria that disappear in a saddle-node bifurcation. The authors analyze the stability of the equilibria and show that Hopf bifurcation occurs at one of the interior equilibria. After introducing the so called net economic revenue \(P\) that measures the profit of harvesting, a considerable part of the paper is devoted to an optimal control problem that consists in maximizing the infinite time integral over the discounted values of \(P\), where the harvesting parameter is taken as the control variable. This problem is solved only in parts, using Pontryagin's maximum principle and some results of previous papers, including also a sufficient condition. Numerical examples are given for ``optimal singular equilibria''.