Positive solutions for a Lotka-Volterra prey-predator model with cross-diffusion and Holling type-II functional response (Q476929)

The authors investigate the following Lotka-Volterra prey-predator system with nonlinear diffusion \[ \begin{cases} -\Delta [(1+\alpha v)u]=u(a-u-\frac{cv}{u+r}),\; & x\in \Omega,\\ -\Delta v=v(b-v+\frac{du}{u+r}), \; & x\in \Omega,\\ u=v=0,\; & x\in \partial\Omega,\end{cases} \] where \(\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^N\; (N\geq 1)\); \(a,c,d\) and \(r\) are positive constant; \(b\in \mathbb{R}\); \(\alpha\) is nonnegative constant. The aim of this article is to study the existence of positive steady state (\((u(x),v(x))\gg (0,0)\) for \(x\in \Omega\)). The authors obtain not only the existence for \(N\geq 1\), but also the uniqueness as \(N=1\). The method used here is the degree theory and analyses in parameter plane. They further obtain the stability of the semi-trivial solutions and trivial solutions, by analyzing the principle eigenvalue (stability modulus).