Coexistence results for some competition models (Q1355734)

The authors develop a model describing a widespread disease that affects small grains and many grass species. This disease is caused by an aphid transmitted virus. In this paper, one assumes for simplicity that there are two virus strains. The main question is the following: can the two strains coexist in equilibrium or will one always competively exclude the other? The aim of the paper is to understand the phase diagram of the model, that is to identify parameter values where one strain competitively excludes the other strain and where both strains coexist. The overall structure of the model presented by the authors is like the contact process: infection rates are proportional to the number of infected neighbors, while recovery rates are constant. Some parameters describe the degree of interspecific competition. The authors give some conditions implying that particles die out or not, or coexistence between particles.