Analysis of a class of Lotka-Volterra systems (Q2114398)

The authors study the dynamics of the two-dimensional Lotka-Volterra system \begin{align*} & \dot{x}=x{{P}_{1}}(\mu ,x,y), \\ & \dot{y}=y{{P}_{2}}(\mu ,x,y), \\ \end{align*} where \(x\ge 0\), \(y\ge 0\), \({{P}_{i}}(\mu ,x,y)={{\mu }_{i}}+{{p}_{i1}}x+{{p}_{i2}}y+{{p}_{i3}}xy+{{p}_{i4}}{{x}^{2}}+{{p}_{i5}}{{y}^{2}}\), \({{p}_{ij}}={{p}_{ij}}(\mu )\) are smooth functions of variable \(({{\mu }_{1}},{{\mu }_{2}})\in {{\mathbb{R}}^{2}}\) such that \({{p}_{12}}(0){{p}_{21}}(0)\ne 0\), \(\left| {{\mu }_{1}} \right|\) and \(\left| {{\mu }_{2}} \right|\) are small. The local behavior of the model is studied in two different degenerate cases. Sixteen different bifurcation diagrams with forty different regions are presented, describing the behavior of the model in these cases.