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On a periodic mutualism model

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2009

Yongkun Li
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan 650091, People's Republic of China.
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Abstract

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Sufficient conditions are obtained for the existence of a globally attracting positive periodic solution of the mutualism model

where ri, Ki, αiC(R, R+) and αi > Ki, i = 1, 2, τi, σiC(R, R+), i = 1, 2, and ri, Ki, αi, τi, σi (i = 1, 2) and functions of period ω > 0.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 2001

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