Bifurcations in periodic integrodifference equations in \(C(\Omega)\): II. Discrete torus bifurcations (Q2175693)

The main purpose of this paper is to provide a Neimark-Sacker bifurcation result for time-periodic difference equations in arbitrary Banach spaces. The authors study the bifurcation of discrete invariant tori caused by a pair of complex-conjugated Floquet multipliers crossing the complex unit circle. This criterion is made explicit for integro-difference equations defining infinite-dimensional discrete dynamical systems used in theoretical ecology to describe the temporal evolution and spatial dispersion of populations with nonoverlapping generations. As an application, the authors combine analytical and numerical tools for a detailed bifurcation analysis of a spatial predator-prey model. Since such realistic models can typically only be studied numerically, the assumptions are formulated to allow numerically stable verifications.