stability and local hopf bifurcation for a predator-prey model with delay稳定和当地霍普夫分岔的捕食模型与延迟.pdf

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society Volume 2012, Article ID 252437, 17 pages doi:10.1155/2012/252437 Research Article Stability and Local Hopf Bifurcation for a Predator-Prey Model with Delay Yakui Xue and Xiaoqing Wang Department of Mathematics, North University of China, Taiyuan, Shanxi 030051, China Correspondence should be addressed to Yakui Xue, xyk5152@163.com Received 8 March 2012; Revised 3 May 2012; Accepted 4 May 2012 Academic Editor: Xiaohua Ding Copyright q 2012 Y. Xue and X. Wang. 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. A predator-prey system with disease in the predator is investigated, where the discrete delay τ is regarded as a parameter. Its dynamics are studied in terms of local analysis and Hopf bifurcation analysis. By analyzing the associated characteristic equation, it is found that Hopf bifurcation occurs when τ crosses some critical values. Using the normal form theory and center manifold argument, the explicit formulae which determine the stability, direction, and other properties of bifurcating periodic solutions are derived. 1. Introduction Many models in ecology can be formulated as system of differential equations with time delays. The effect of the past history on the stability of system is also an important problem in population biology. Recently, the properties of periodic solutions arising from the Hopf bifurcation have been considered by many authors 1–4. May 5 first proposed and discussed the delayed predator-prey system dx