Uniform asymptotic stability of a discontinuous predator-prey model under control via non-autonomous systems theory. (Q1642881)

This paper starts by stating an adaptive control problem for a three-species predator-prey model (two preys and a predator) with Beddington-DeAngelis functional responses for the predator, nonlinear feedback controls being employed. These controls are functions of time, being assumed that the model is subject to impulsive perturbations, on an impulsive set which is not completely specified beforehand. The approach is programmatic, a generic nonautonomous impulsive system being considered from a uniform stability viewpoint, using Lyapunov functions. The paper is self-contained, the second section being entirely devoted to introducing preliminary notions and results involving impulsive semidynamical systems on metric spaces. Section 3 is concerned with the main results of the paper, necessary and sufficient conditions for the uniform asymptotic stability and the global uniform asymptotic stability of the null section being determined. These results are then specialized for systems of the form \[ u^\prime =f(t,u),\quad I:M\to\mathbb{R}, \] where \(f\in C(\mathbb{R}\times\mathbb{R}^n,\mathbb{R}^n)\), \(I\) is a continuous function, \(M\subset\mathbb{R}^n\) is an impulsive set, \(I(0)=0\) and \(f(t,0)=0\) for \(t\in\mathbb{R}\), necessary and sufficient conditions for the uniform stability of the null solution for this class of systems being determined. The global stability of the null equilibrium for the initial predator-prey system is then obtained as a byproduct.