Asymptotical stability and spatial patterns of a spatial cyclic competitive system (Q865565)

The authors consider the following system of integro-partial differential equations which describes a cyclic Lotka-Voterra competitive system: \[ \begin{cases} \frac{\partial R(x,t) }{\partial t}= a S(x,t)\int k_\tau (x-y)R(y,t)\,dy -cR(x,t)\int k_p (x-y)P(y,t)\,dy,\\ \frac{\partial S(x,t) }{\partial t}= b P(x,t)\int k_s (x-y)S(y,t)\,dy -aS(x,t)\int k_r (x-y)R(y,t) \,dy,\\ \frac{\partial P(x,t) }{\partial t}= c R(x,t)\int k_p (x-y)P(y,t)\,dy -bP(x,t)\int k_s (x-y)S(y,t)\,dy, \end{cases}\tag{1} \] where \(R(x,t)\) is the probability that species \(R\) occupies location \(x\) at time \(t\), and similarly for \(S(x,t)\) and \(P(x,t);\) the constants \(a, b, c \) are invading probabilities; \(k_r, k_s, k_p\) are functions that are symmetric and positive. The authors determine the steady states of problem (1) and then studied the stability of the nontrivial steady state. Furthermore, they integrate problem (1) numerically and verified their theoretical results.