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Verhulst logistic curve either grows OR decays, depending on the {\it growth rate} parameter value. A similar situation is found in the Gompertz law about human mortality. However, growth can neither be infinite nor reach a finite steady…
The main goal of this paper is twofold. First, it characterizes the existence of positive periodic solutions for a general class of weighted periodic-parabolic logistic problems of degenerate type (see (1.1)). This result provides us with…
We consider the Verhulst logistic equation and a couple of forms of the corresponding logistic maps. For the case of the logistic equation we show that using the general Riccati solution only changes the initial conditions of the equation.…
Freight carriers rely on tactical plans to satisfy demand in a cost-effective way. For computational tractability in real large-scale settings, such plans are typically computed by solving deterministic and cyclic formulations. An important…
The logistic equation has been extensively used to model biological phenomena across a variety of disciplines and has provided valuable insight into how our universe operates. Incorporating time-dependent parameters into the logistic…
We consider a generalization of the classical logistic growth model introducing more than one inflection point. The growth, called multi-sigmoidal, is firstly analyzed from a deterministic point of view in order to obtain the main…
We consider a Dirichlet type problem for a nonlinear, nonlocal equation driven by the degenerate fractional p-Laplacian, with a logistic type reaction depending on a positive parameter. In the subdiffusive and equidiffusive cases, we prove…
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We study the global bifurcation curves of a diffusive logistic equation, when harvesting is orthogonal to the first eigenfunction of the Laplacian, for values of the linear growth up to $\lambda_2+\delta$, examining in detail their behavior…
A delayed term in a differential equation reflects the fact that information takes significant time to travel from one place to another within a process being studied. Despite de apparent similarity with ordinary differential equations,…
A numerical scheme is presented for solving the Helmholtz equation with Dirichlet or Neumann boundary conditions on piecewise smooth open curves, where the curves may have corners and multiple junctions. Existing integral equation methods…
Discrete autonomous dynamical systems in dimension 1 can exhibit chaotic behavior, whereas the corresponding continuous evolution equations rule it out, and cannot even possess a nontrivial periodic solution. Therefore the passage from…
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We construct the global bifurcation curves, solutions versus level of harvesting, for the steady states of a diffusive logistic equation on a bounded domain, under Dirichlet boundary conditions and other appropriate hypotheses, when $a$,…
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We start with a Riemann-Hilbert Problems (RHP) with canonical normalization whose sewing functions depends on several additional variables. Using Zakharov-Shabat theorem we are able to construct a family of ordinary differential operators…
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