Research Article

Bifurcation and Global Dynamics of a Leslie-Gower Type Competitive System of Rational Difference Equations with Quadratic Terms

Table 3

The global behavior of system (1).

Case Parameter region Global behavior

(i), , , There exist six equilibrium points , , , , , and , where and are locally asymptotically stable, , , and are saddle points, and is repeller. The stable manifold of the saddle point is an increasing separatrix with endpoint at , and solutions with initial point above the converge to , while solutions with initial point below the converge to All orbits that start on are attracted to The basins of attraction of and are, respectively, and

(ii), , , There exist five equilibrium points , , , , and , where is locally asymptotically stable, and are saddle points, is repeller, and is nonhyperbolic. There exists a continuous increasing curve with endpoint at , which is a subset of the basin of attraction of . All solutions with initial point above converge to , while solutions with initial point below converge to The basins of attraction of and are, respectively, and

(iii), , There exist five equilibrium points , , , , and , where and are locally asymptotically stable, and are saddle points, and is repeller. The stable manifold of the saddle point is an increasing separatrix with endpoint at , and solutions with initial point above converge to , while solutions with initial point below converge to . All orbits that start on are attracted to . The basin of attraction of is

(iv), , or , , , There exist four equilibrium points , , , and , where is globally asymptotically stable, and are saddle points, and is a repeller. The basins of attraction of , , and are, respectively, , , and

(v), , , There exist four equilibrium points , , , and , where and are locally asymptotically stable and and are saddle points. The stable manifold of the saddle point is an increasing separatrix, and solutions with initial point above converge to , while solutions with initial point below converge to All orbits that start on are attracted to The basin of attraction of is given by

(vi), , , There exist five equilibrium points , , , , and , where is locally asymptotically stable, and are saddle points, is nonhyperbolic, and is a repeller. The stable manifold of the saddle point is an increasing separatrix with endpoint at , and solutions with initial point above converge to , while solutions with initial point below converge to All orbits that start on are attracted to The basin of attraction of is given by

(vii), , , There exist four equilibrium points , , , and , where is locally asymptotically stable, is a saddle point, is nonhyperbolic, and is a repeller. There exists a strictly increasing curve with endpoint at , which is the subset of the basin of attraction of . All solutions with initial point above converge to , while solutions with initial point below converge to The basin of attraction of is given by

(viii), , , There exist five equilibrium points , , , and , where is locally asymptotically stable, is a saddle point, is nonhyperbolic, and is a repeller. The basins of attraction of and are given by and and the basin of attraction of is

(ix), , , There exist four equilibrium points , , , and , where and are locally asymptotically stable, is a saddle point, and is nonhyperbolic. There exist continuous increasing curves and with endpoint at , which are the subsets of the basin of attraction of . Further, all solutions with initial point above converge to and all solutions with initial point above and below converge to , while solutions with initial point below converge to The basin of attraction of is

(x), , There exist three equilibrium points , , and , where is locally asymptotically stable, is a saddle point, and is nonhyperbolic. There exists a continuous increasing curve with endpoint at which is a subset of the basin of attraction of . All solutions with initial point above converge to , while solutions with initial point below converge to The basin of attraction of is given by

(xi), There exist two equilibrium points , which is a saddle point, and , which is globally asymptotically stable, where and

(xii), There exist three equilibrium points , , and , where is nonhyperbolic, is locally asymptotically stable, and is a saddle point. The stable manifold of the saddle point is an increasing separatrix with endpoint at , and solutions with initial point above converge to , while solutions with initial point below converge to All orbits that start on are attracted to The basin of attraction of is given by

(xiii), There exist two equilibrium points and which are nonhyperbolic. There exists a continuous increasing curve with endpoint at which is a subset of the basin of attraction of . All solutions with initial point above converge to , while solutions with initial point below converge to

(xiv), There exists one equilibrium point which is nonhyperbolic and global attractor. The basin of attraction of is

(xv), There exist three equilibrium points , , and , where and are locally asymptotically stable and is a saddle point. The stable manifold of the saddle point is an increasing separatrix with endpoint at , and solutions with initial point above converge to , while solutions with initial point below converge to All orbits that start on are attracted to

(xvi), There exists one equilibrium point which is globally asymptotically stable. The basin of attraction of is

(xvii), There exist two equilibrium points and , where is locally asymptotically stable and is nonhyperbolic. There exists a continuous increasing curve with endpoint at which is a subset of the basin of attraction of . All solutions with initial point above converge to , while solutions with initial point below converge to