BOGDANOV-TAKENS BIFURCATION OF CODIMENSION 3 IN A PREDATOR-PREY MODEL WITH CONSTANT-YIELD PREDATOR HARVESTING

摘要

Recently, we (J. Huang, Y. Gong and S. Ruan, Discrete Contin. Dynam. Syst. B 18 (2013), 2101-2121) showed that a Leslie-Gower type predator-prey model with constant-yield predator harvesting has a Bogdanov-Takens singularity (cusp) of codimension 3 for some parameter values. In this paper, we prove analytically that the model undergoes Bogdanov-Takens bifurcation (cusp case) of codimension 3. To confirm the theoretical analysis and results, we also perform numerical simulations for various bifurcation scenarios, including the existence of two limit cycles, the coexistence of a stable homoclinic loop and an unstable limit cycle, supercritical and subcritical Hopf bifurcations, and homoclinic bifurcation of codimension 1.