The limit cycles of a general Kolmogorov system (Q429278)

The generalized Kolmogorov system \[ \left\{\begin{aligned} {dx\over dt}&=\phi(x)f(x,y), \\ {dy\over dt}&=\rho(y)g(x,y). \end{aligned}\right. \] is considered. The functions \(\phi\), \(\rho\), \(f\), and \(g\) are assumed to satisfy appropriate smoothness and growth conditions, in particular, which that make the system a prey-predator model and which that guarantee the existence of a unique positive equilibrium. The authors then use the theory of generalized rotated vector fields and the Poincaré-Bendixson annular region theorem to derive sufficient conditions for the existence and uniqueness of limit cycles. This system includes many earlier prey-predator models as special cases, and, consequently, the results here extend many of the existing results on limit cycles.