Stability and Hopf bifurcation periodic orbits in delay coupled Lotka-Volterra ring system

Abstract

In this paper, we consider a class of delay coupled Lotka-Volterra ring systems. Based on the symmetric bifurcation theory of delay differential equations and representation theory of standard dihedral groups, properties of phase locked periodic solutions are given. Moreover, the direction and the stability of the Hopf bifurcation periodic orbits are obtained by using normal form and center manifold theory. Finally, the research results are verified by numerical simulation.

Keywords

• lotka-volterra
• hopf bifurcation
• periodic solution
• equivariant
• normal form
• 37-xx