Periodic solution for a two-species nonautonomous competition Lotka-Volterra patch system with time delay (Q5957137)

By using the continuation theorem of coincidence degree theory, the existence of a positive periodic solution to a two-species nonautonomous competition Lotka-Volterra patch system with time delay \[ \begin{aligned} x'_1(t)&=x_1(t)[r_1(t)-a_1(t)x_1(t)-b_1(t)y(t)]+D_1(t)[x_2(t)-x_1(t)],\cr x'_2(t)&=x_2(t)[r_2(t)-a_2(t)x_2(t)]+D_2(t)[x_1(t)-x_2(t)],\cr y'(t)&=y(t) \Biggl[r_3(t)-a_3(t)x_1(t)-b_3(t)y(t)-\beta(t)\int_{-\tau}^{0}K(s)y(t+s) ds\Biggr], \end{aligned} \] is established, where \(r_i(t), a_i(t)\), \(i=1,2,3\), \(D_i(t)\), \(i=1,2\), \(b_i(t)\) \(i=1,3\), and \(\beta(t)\) is any positive periodic continuous function with period \(\omega>0\), \(\tau\) is a nonnegative constant and \(K(s)\) is a continuous nonnegative function on \([-\tau,0]\).