A pair-formation model with a discrete set of offsprings and child care (Q2471664)

The author presents a discrete newborns set-based deterministic population model with two-sex and structured by age and marital status, taking into account strong parental care of offspring. The model includes a weighted harmonic-mean type pair formation function and neglects the separation of pairs. It is assume that each sex has pre-reproductive and reproductive age intervals. All adults are divided into single male, single female, permanent pairs. All pairs are of two types: pairs without offsprings under parental care and pairs taking child care. All pre-reproductive individuals are of two types: young and juvenile groups. The young offspring are need parental care, and the juveniles can live without parental care. It is assumed that births can only occur from couples and after the death of any of the pair partner all young offsprings of this pair die. The model consists of integro-PDEs subject to the conditions of integral type. The number of these equations depends on the biologically possible maximal newborns number of the same generation produced by a pair. It is a complicated model. One kind of separable solution with the form \(u(t, \cdot)=fe^{\lambda t}U(\cdot)\) is considered, where \(f\) is an arbitrary positive constant. Sufficient conditions are obtained for the existence of this kind of separable solutions. In the last, this model with diffusion is also discussed.