Periodic solutions to a class of biological diffusion models with hysteresis effect (Q900634)

For the mathematical modeling of a class of biological systems, including the prey-predator system with a fast-diffusing predator, the authors introduced a mixed boundary value problem which consists of a nonlinear hysteretic reaction-diffusion system, with typical Neumann boundary condition and periodic conditions. The hysteresis operators is represented by the subdifferential of the indicator function of a closed interval. Above mentioned mixed problem can be regarded as a sort of quasi-variational evolution inequalities. But the quasi-variational structure leads to some difficulties in the mathematical treatment. To overcome these difficulties, the authors introduced an approximation problem, which is obtained from above problem by applying a truncation operator to nonlinear terms and adding a diffusion term. Then with the help of the Poincaré map, the Leray-Schauder theorem is used to prove the existence of a solution to the approximation problem. Then based on some uniform bounds for approximate solutions, the authors obtain the solution of the initial problem which is the limit point of some subsequence of approximate solutions.