A polycycle and limit cycles in a non-differentiable predator-prey model (Q2384696)

The authors study a nondifferentiable predator-prey model. They establish conditions for the existence of a heteroclinic orbit which is part of a contractive polycycle. This orbit is born as a consequence of the collapse of the unstable manifold of a hyperbolic saddle and the stable manifold of a nonhyperbolic singularity at the origin. For some value of the parameters, the authors prove further that the heteroclinic orbit is broken and generates a stable limit cycle. In additional, they prove that in the parameter space, there exists a curve such that the unique singularity in the positive quadrant of the predator-prey model is a weak focus of order two, and thus has at most two small amplitude limit cycles.