Bifurcation curves of positive steady-state solutions for a reaction-diffusion problem of lake eutrophication

DOI10.1016/J.JMAA.2016.12.063MaRDI QIDQ509015zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 8 February 2017

Published in Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmaa.2016.12.063

exact multiplicity Holling type-III functional response time map

Parameter dependent boundary value problems for ordinary differential equations (34B08) Positive solutions to nonlinear boundary value problems for ordinary differential equations (34B18) Bifurcation theory for ordinary differential equations (34C23) Dynamical systems in biology (37N25)

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The article contains the investigation of the exact multiplicity and bifurcation curves of positive solutions for a multiparameter Dirichlet problem \[ \begin{cases} u(x)+\lambda \left [a-bu+\frac{u^{p}}{1+u^{p}} \right]=0, -1<x<1,\\ u(-1)=u(1)=0 ,\end{cases} \] where \(p\), \(a\), \(b\) are positive dimensionless parameters, \(\lambda>0\) is a bifurcation parameter, the function \(\frac{u^{p}}{1+u^{p}} \) with \(p>1\) is the Holling type III functional response function. For fixed \(p > 1\), it's assumed that either \(0 \leq a \leq a_{1,p}\), \(b > 0\) and \((a, b)\) lies below the curve \[ \Gamma_{1} =\left\{ (a,b): a(t)=\frac{t^{p}[p-1-t^{p}]}{(t^{p}+1)^{2}}, b(t)=\frac{pt^{p-1}}{(t^{p}+1)^{2}}, 0<t< \sqrt[p]{\frac{p-1}{p+1}}\right\} \] and the bifurcation curve is an \(S\)-shaped curve; at \(0 \leq a \leq a_{2,p}\) the point \((a, b)\) lies on or above the curve \(\Gamma_{1}\) for some positive constants \(a_{1,p}\) and \(a_{2,p}\). The main result of the article are two theorems, it includes a classification of three qualitatively different bifurcation curves on the \((\lambda, \| u\|_{\infty})\)-plane and corresponding exactly amount of positive solutions. The bifurcation curves have one of the shapes: an \(S\)-shaped curve, a broken \(S\)-shaped curve, and a monotone increasing curve. Hence, the article includes the method to determine the exact multiplicity of positive solutions by the values of \(a\), \(b\) and \(\lambda\).

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