In this paper, sharp a priori estimate of the periodic solutions is obtained for the discrete analogue of the continuous time ratio-dependent predator-prey system, which is governed by nonautonomous difference equations, modelling the dynamics of the $n-1$ competing preys and one predator having nonoverlapping generations. Based on more precise a priori estimate and the continuation theorem of the coincidence degree, an easily verifiable sufficient criterion of the existence of positive periodic solutions...

In this paper, we employ some new techniques to study the existence of positive periodic solution of $n$-species neutral delay system $$N_i^{\text{'}}\left(t\right)=N_i\left(t\right)\left[a_i\left(t\right)-\sum _{j=1}^n{\beta }_{ij}\left(t\right)N_j\left(t\right)-\sum _{j=1}^n{b}_{ij}\left(t\right)N_j(t-{\tau }_{ij}\left(t\right))-\sum _{j=1}^n{c}_{ij}\left(t\right)N_j^{\text{'}}(t-{\tau }_{ij}\left(t\right))\right].$$ As a corollary, we answer an open problem proposed by Y. Kuang.

Realization theory for linear input-output operators and frequency-domain methods for the solvability of Riccati operator equations are used for the stability and instability investigation of a class of nonlinear Volterra integral equations in a Hilbert space. The key idea is to consider, similar to the Volterra equation, a time-invariant control system generated by an abstract ODE in a weighted Sobolev space, which has the same stability properties as the Volterra equation.

This paper focuses on the automatic recognition of map projection, its inverse and re-projection. Our analysis leads to the unconstrained optimization solved by the hybrid BFGS nonlinear least squares technique. The objective function is represented by the squared sum of the residuals. For the map re-projection the partial differential equations of the inverse transformation are derived. They can be applied to any map projection. Illustrative examples of the stereographic and globular Nicolosi projections...

The paper deals with the boundary value problem $$u^{\text{'}\text{'}}+ku=g\left(u\right)+e\left(t\right),u\left(0\right)=u\left(2\pi \right),u^{\text{'}}\left(0\right)=u^{\text{'}}\left(2\pi \right),$$ where $k\in ℝ$, $gI\mapsto ℝ$ is continuous, $e\in 𝕃J$ and ${lim}_{x\to 0+}{\int }_x^{1}g\left(s\right)\text{d}s=\infty .$ In particular, the existence and multiplicity results are obtained by using the method of lower and upper functions which are constructed as solutions of related auxiliary linear problems.

This paper presents vector versions of some existence results recently published for certain fourth order differential systems based on generalisations drawn from possibilities arising from the underlying auxiliary equation. The results obtained also extend some known works involving third order differential systems to the corresponding fourth order.