Heteroclinic orbits and convergence of order-preserving set-condensing semiflows with applications to integrodifferential equations (Q1900691)

The goal of this paper is to study the cooperative and irreducible retarded functional differential equation with finite delay, as an example, an integro-differential equation with general kernel is studied. The authors provide a partial solution to this question by establishing the existence of monotone heteroclinic orbits connecting two order related equilibria and convergence of bounded orbits for semiflows generated by the cooperative and irreducible integro-differential equation. In order to illustrate the general results the authors give the following stage-structured model: \[ \begin{aligned} \dot I_i(t) &=- \gamma_i I_i(t)+ \sum_{j\neq i} \delta_{ji}[I_j (t)-I_i (t)]+ \alpha_i M_i(t)- \sum_{j=1}^n \alpha_j \int_{-\infty}^t b_{ij} (t-s) M_j (s) ds,\\ \dot M_i (t) &=- \beta_i M_i^2 (t)+ \sum_{j\neq i} D_{ji} [M_j (t)- M_i (t) ]+ \sum_{j=1}^n \alpha_j \int_{-\infty}^t b_{ij} (t-s) M_j (s) ds, \end{aligned} \] where \(I_i (t)\) and \(M_i (t)\) represent the immature and mature population densities, respectively. Some theorems are proved.