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Reliable approximation of separatrix manifolds in competition models with safety niches

Numerical Analysis 2016-11-04 v1

Abstract

In dynamical systems saddle points partition the domain into basins of attractions of the remaining locally stable equilibria. This situation is rather common especially in population dynamics models, like prey-predator or competition systems. Focusing on squirrels population models with niche, in this paper we design algorithms for the detection and the refinement of points lying on the separatrix manifold partitioning the phase space. We consider both the two populations and the three populations cases. To reconstruct the separatrix curve and surface, we apply the Partition of Unity method, which makes use of Wendland's functions as local approximants.

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@article{arxiv.1411.3938,
  title  = {Reliable approximation of separatrix manifolds in competition models with safety niches},
  author = {Roberto Cavoretto and Alessandra De Rossi and Emma Perracchione and Ezio Venturino},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.3938},
  year   = {2016}
}

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arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1404.0987