Hidden linearity in systems for competition with evolution in ecology and finance (Q886181)

Lotka-Volterra models have been extensively studied. The Lie symmetry and reduction methods are applied to one such variant, namely an ecology in which species with populations compete for a finite set of resources according to a system of first-order ODEs. Two cases both of which result in linearization of the reduced second-order ODE are obtained provided certain values are given to the parameters of the model. The explicit symmetries rather than the invariant criteria are utilized to check for linearizability of the transformed second-order ODEs in each of the cases. It would be of interest to check for invariant criteria for linearization a priori for such systems.