Singular bifurcations in a modified Leslie-Gower model

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Main Authors: García, Roberto Albarran, Alvarez-Ramírez, Martha, Jardón-Kojakhmetov, Hildeberto
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author García, Roberto Albarran
Alvarez-Ramírez, Martha
Jardón-Kojakhmetov, Hildeberto
author_facet García, Roberto Albarran
Alvarez-Ramírez, Martha
Jardón-Kojakhmetov, Hildeberto
contents We study a predator-prey system with a generalist Leslie-Gower predator, a functional Holling type II response, and a weak Allee effect on the prey. The prey's population often grows much faster than its predator, allowing us to introduce a small time scale parameter $\varepsilon$ that relates the growth rates of both species, giving rise to a slow-fast system. Zhu and Liu (2022) show that, in the case of the weak Allee effect, Hopf singular bifurcation, slow-fast canard cycles, relaxation oscillations, etc., exist. Our main contribution lies in the rigorous analysis of a degenerate scenario organized by a (degenerate) transcritical bifurcation. The key tool employed is the blow-up method that desingularizes the degenerate singularity. In addition, we determine the criticality of the singular Hopf bifurcation using recent intrinsic techniques that do not require a local normal form. The theoretical analysis is complemented by a numerical bifurcation analysis, in which we numerically identify and analytically confirm the existence of a nearby Takens-Bogdanov point.
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spellingShingle Singular bifurcations in a modified Leslie-Gower model
García, Roberto Albarran
Alvarez-Ramírez, Martha
Jardón-Kojakhmetov, Hildeberto
Dynamical Systems
Chaotic Dynamics
34E13, 34E15, 34E17, 37G15, 92D25
We study a predator-prey system with a generalist Leslie-Gower predator, a functional Holling type II response, and a weak Allee effect on the prey. The prey's population often grows much faster than its predator, allowing us to introduce a small time scale parameter $\varepsilon$ that relates the growth rates of both species, giving rise to a slow-fast system. Zhu and Liu (2022) show that, in the case of the weak Allee effect, Hopf singular bifurcation, slow-fast canard cycles, relaxation oscillations, etc., exist. Our main contribution lies in the rigorous analysis of a degenerate scenario organized by a (degenerate) transcritical bifurcation. The key tool employed is the blow-up method that desingularizes the degenerate singularity. In addition, we determine the criticality of the singular Hopf bifurcation using recent intrinsic techniques that do not require a local normal form. The theoretical analysis is complemented by a numerical bifurcation analysis, in which we numerically identify and analytically confirm the existence of a nearby Takens-Bogdanov point.
title Singular bifurcations in a modified Leslie-Gower model
topic Dynamical Systems
Chaotic Dynamics
34E13, 34E15, 34E17, 37G15, 92D25
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.18059