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Positive solutions of a class of biological models in a heterogeneous environment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

Afshin Ghoreishi  and
Roger Logan
Afshin Ghoreishi
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Bowdoin College Brunswick, ME 04011, United States of America
Roger Logan
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, The College of Charleston, Charleston SC 29424, United States of America
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In this paper we discuss existence of positive solutions to a general nonlinear elliptic system of reaction-diffusion equations representing a predator-prey or competition model of interaction between two species, in a heterogeneous environment. We also consider homogeneous Dirichlet and/or Robin boundary conditions. In the predator-prey case we give necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of positive solutions, while in the competition case we give sufficient conditions. We use index theory in a positive cone to attack our problem and characterise our results by the sign of the first eigenvalues of certain Schrodinger type operators.

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Research Article
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Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 44 , Issue 1 , August 1991 , pp. 79 - 94
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Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1991

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