Abstract

A class of Beddington-DeAngelis functional response predator-prey model is considered. The conditions for the local stability and the existence of Hopf bifurcation at the positive equilibrium of the system are derived. Some explicit formulae for determining the stability and the direction of the Hopf bifurcation periodic solutions bifurcating from Hopf bifurcations are obtained by using the normal form theory and center manifold theory. Some numerical simulations for justifying the theoretical analysis are also provided. Finally, main conclusions are given.

1. Introduction

In recent years, population dynamics (including stable, unstable, persistent, and oscillatory behavior) has become very popular since Vito Volterra and James Lotka proposed the seminal models of predator-prey models in the mid-1920s. Great attention has been paid to the dynamics properties of the predator-prey models which have significant biological background. Many excellent and interesting results have been obtained [121]. In 2009, Gakkhar et al. [4] investigated the local stability and Hopf bifurcation of the autonomous delayed predator-prey system with Beddington-DeAngelis functional response: where represent the prey density and the predator density, respectively. The delay terms occur in growth as well as interaction terms. For this, it means that the prey takes time to convert the food into its growth [11], whereas the predator takes time for the same [22]. All the parameters in the model take positive values, that is, . The more detail biological meaning of the coefficients of system (1.1), one can see [11] or [22].

We would like to point out that Gakkhar et al. [4] studied the local stability and Hopf bifurcation of system (1.1) under the assumption: and obtained some excellent results. While in most cases, . Considering the factor, we further investigate the model (1.1) with as a complementarity.

In this paper, we go on to study the stability, the local Hopf bifurcation for system (1.1). To the best of our knowledge, it is the first time to deal with the research of Hopf bifurcation for model (1.1) under the assumption .

The remainder of the paper is organized as follows. In Section 2, we investigate the stability of the positive equilibrium and the occurrence of local Hopf bifurcations. In Section 3, the direction and stability of the local Hopf bifurcation are established. In Section 4, numerical simulations are carried out to illustrate the validity of the main results. Some main conclusions are drawn in Section 5.

2. Stability of the Positive Equilibrium and Local Hopf Bifurcations

In this section, we shall study the stability of the positive equilibrium and the existence of local Hopf bifurcations.

Since time delay does not change the equilibrium of system and according to [4], we know that the delayed prey predator model (1.1) has three equilibrium points: two boundary equilibrium and , and a nontrivial equilibrium point , where are the positive solutions of the following quadratic equations: where Since , (2.1) in admits a unique positive solution. If one of the following conditions: holds, then system (2.1) has at least one positive equilibrium point .

Let and still denote by , respectively, then (1.1) becomes where and are defined by Appendix A.

The linearization of (2.4) at is whose characteristic equation is In order to investigate the distribution of roots of the transcendental equation (2.6), the following Lemma is useful.

Lemma 2.1 (see [23]). For the transcendental equation as vary, the sum of orders of the zeros of in the open right half plane can change, and only a zero appears on or crosses the imaginary axis.

In the sequel, we consider three cases.

Case a. , (2.6) becomes A set of necessary and sufficient conditions for all roots of (2.8) to have a negative real part are given in the following form: Then, the equilibrium point is locally asymptotically stable when the condition holds.

Case b. , (2.6) becomes where For be a root of (2.10), then it follows that which leads to It is easy to see that if the condition holds, then (2.13) has no positive roots. Hence, all roots of (2.10) have negative real parts when under the conditions and .
If and hold, then (2.13) has a unique positive root . Substituting into (2.12), we obtain If and hold, then (2.10) has two positive roots and . Substituting into (2.12), we obtain Let be a root of (2.10) near and . Due to functional differential equation theory, for every , there exists such that is continuously differentiable in for . Substituting into the left-hand side of (2.10) and taking derivative with respect to , we have which leads to where Noting that we have Similarly, we can obtain According to above analysis the Corollary  2.4 in Ruan and Wei [23], we have the following results.

Lemma 2.2. For, assume that one of the conditions (a), (b), (c), and (d) holds and is satisfied. Then, the following conclusions hold.(i)If holds, then the positive equilibrium of system (1.1) is asymptotically stable for all .(ii) If holds, then the positive equilibrium of system (1.1) is asymptotically stable for , and unstable for . Furthermore, system (1.1) undergoes a Hopf bifurcation at the positive equilibrium when .(iii) If holds, then there is a positive integer such that the positive equilibrium is stable when , and unstable when . Furthermore, system (1.1) undergoes a Hopf bifurcation at the positive equilibrium when .

Case c ()
We consider (2.6) with in its stable interval. Regarding as a parameter, without loss of generality, we consider system (1.1) under the assumptions and . Let be a root of (2.6), then we can obtain where Denote Assume that It is easy to check that if (H5) holds and . We can obtain that (2.25) has finite positive roots . For every fixed , there exists a sequence , such that (2.25) holds. Let When , (2.6) has a pair of purely imaginary roots for .
In the following, we assume that Thus, by the general Hopf bifurcation theorem for FDEs in Hale [24], we have the following result on the stability and Hopf bifurcation in system (1.1).

Theorem 2.3. For system (1.1), assume that one of the conditions (a), (b), (c), and (d) holds and suppose , and are satisfied, and , then the positive equilibrium is asymptotically stable when , and system (1.1) undergoes a Hopf bifurcation at the positive equilibrium when .

3. Direction and Stability of the Hopf Bifurcation

In the previous section, we obtained conditions for Hopf bifurcation to occur when . In this section, we shall derive the explicit formulae determining the direction, stability, and period of these periodic solutions bifurcating from the positive equilibrium at this critical value of , by using techniques from normal form and center manifold theory [7]. Throughout this section, we always assume that system (1.1) undergoes Hopf bifurcation at the positive equilibrium for , and then is corresponding purely imaginary roots of the characteristic equation at the positive equilibrium .

Without loss of generality, we assume that , where . For convenience, let and , where is defined by (2.28) and , drop the bar for the simplification of notations, then system (1.1) can be written as an FDE in as where and , and are given by respectively, where , From the discussion in Section 2, we know that, if , then system (3.1) undergoes a Hopf bifurcation at the positive equilibrium and the associated characteristic equation of system (3.1) has a pair of simple imaginary roots .

By the representation theorem, there is a matrix function with bounded variation components such that In fact, we can choose

For , define Then, (3.1) is equivalent to the abstract differential equation where .

For , define For and , define the bilinear form where , the and are adjoint operators. By the discussions in Section 2, we know that are eigenvalues of , and they are also eigenvalues of corresponding to and , respectively. By direct computation, we can obtain where Furthermore, and .

Next, we use the same notations as those in Hassard [7] and we first compute the coordinates to describe the center manifold at . Let be the solution of (3.1) when .

Define on the center manifold , and we have where and and are local coordinates for center manifold in the direction of and . Noting that is also real if is real, we consider only real solutions. For solutions of (3.1), That is where Hence, we have to obtain the expression of (see Appendix B). Then, it is easy to obtain the expression of (see Appendix B).

For unknown in , we still need to compute them.

From (3.8), (3.13), we have where Comparing the coefficients, we obtain and we know that, for , Comparing the coefficients of (3.23) with (3.20) gives that From (3.21), (3.24), and the definition of , we get Noting that , we have where is a constant vector.

Similarly, from (3.22), (3.25), and the definition of , we have where is a constant vector

In what follows, we shall seek appropriate in (3.27), (3.29), respectively. It follows from the definition of and (3.24), (3.25) that where .

From (3.21), we have where Noting that and substituting (3.27) and (3.32) into (3.30), we have That is It follows that where Similarly, substituting (3.28) and (3.33) into (3.31), we have That is It follows that where From (3.27), (3.29), (3.38), (3.42), we can calculate and derive the following values: These formulas give a description of the Hopf bifurcation periodic solutions of (3.1) at on the center manifold. From the discussion above, we have the following result.

Theorem 3.1. The periodic solution is forward (backward) if ; the bifurcating periodic solutions are orbitally asymptotically stable with asymptotical phase (unstable) if ; the periods of the bifurcating periodic solutions increase (decrease) if .

4. Numerical Examples

In this section, we present some numerical results of system (1.1) to verify the analytical predictions obtained in the previous section. From Section 3, we may determine the direction of a Hopf bifurcation and the stability of the bifurcation periodic solutions. Let us consider the following system: which has a positive equilibrium . When , then we can easily obtain that and are satisfied. Take , for example, by some computation by means of Matlab 7.0, we get . From Lemma 2.2, we know that the transversal condition is satisfied. Thus, the positive equilibrium is asymptotically stable for and unstable for which is shown in Figure 1. When , (4.1) undergoes a Hopf bifurcation at the positive equilibrium , that is, a small amplitude periodic solution occurs around when and is close to which is shown in Figure 2.

Let and choose as a parameter. We have . Then, the positive equilibrium is asymptotically when . The Hopf bifurcation value of (4.1) is . By the algorithm derived in Section 3, we can obtain Furthermore, it follows that and . Thus, the positive equilibrium is stable when as is illustrated by the computer simulations (see Figure 3). When passes through the critical value , the positive equilibrium loses its stability and a Hopf bifurcation occurs, that is, a family of periodic solutions bifurcations from the positive equilibrium . Since and , the direction of the Hopf bifurcation is , and these bifurcating periodic solutions from at are stable, which are depicted in Figure 4.

5. Conclusions

In this paper, we have investigated local stability of the positive equilibrium and local Hopf bifurcation of a Beddington-DeAngelis functional response predator-prey model with two delays. We have showed that, if one of the conditions (a), (b), (c), and (d) holds and , and are satisfied, and , then the positive equilibrium is asymptotically stable when , as the delay increases, the positive equilibrium loses its stability and a sequence of Hopf bifurcations occur at the positive equilibrium , that is, a family of periodic orbits bifurcates from the the positive equilibrium . At last, the direction of Hopf bifurcation and the stability of the bifurcating periodic orbits are discussed by applying the normal form theory and the center manifold theorem. A numerical example verifying our theoretical results is carried out. In addition, we must point out that, although Gakkhar et al. [4] have also investigated the existence of Hopf bifurcation for system (1.1) with respect to positive equilibrium , it is assumed that . For , only numerical simulations are carried out to discuss the existence of Hopf bifurcation. In this paper, under the case , we investigate the existence of Hopf bifurcation quantitatively. Our work generalizes the known results of Sunita Gakkhar et al. [4]. Similarly, we can investigate the Hopf bifurcation of system (1.2) by choosing the delay as bifurcation parameter. We will further investigate the topic elsewhere in the near future.

Appendices

A.

The expressions of , and are as follows: where

B.

The expressions of , and are as follows:

Acknowledgment

This work is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (no. 10771215), Doctoral Foundation of Guizhou College of Finance and Economics (2010), the soft Science and Technology Program of Guizhou Province (no. 2011LKC2030), and Nature and Technology Foundation of Guizhou Province (J[2012]2100)