Multiple Positive Periodic Solutions for a Gilpin-Ayala Competition Predator-Prey System with Harvesting Terms.pdfVIP

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Abstract and Applied Analysis Volume 2012, Article ID 427264, 13 pages doi:10.1155/2012/427264 Research Article Multiple Positive Periodic Solutions for a Gilpin-Ayala Competition Predator-Prey System with Harvesting Terms Yongzhi Liao,1 Yongkun Li,2 and Xiaoyan Dou2 1 School of Computer Science and Technology, Panzhihua University, Sichuan, Panzhihua 617000, China 2 Department of Mathematics, Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan 650091, China Correspondence should be addressed to Yongkun Li, yklie@ Received 13 March 2012; Revised 28 March 2012; Accepted 3 April 2012 Academic Editor: Norio Yoshida Copyright q 2012 Yongzhi Liao et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. By applying Mawhin’s continuation theorem of coincidence degree theory, we study the existence of multiple positive periodic solutions for a Gilpin-Ayala competition predator-prey system with harvesting terms and obtain some sufficient conditions for the existence of multiple positive periodic solutions for the system under consideration. The result of this paper is completely new. An example is employed to illustrate our result. 1. Introduction In 1973, Ayala et al. 1 conducted experiments on fruit fly dynamics to test the validity of ten models of competition. One of the models accounting best for the experimental results is given by y1 θ1 y2 y r y 1 − − a , 1 1 1 12 K1 K2