ArticleOriginal scientific text

Title

Dynamics of a two sex population with gestation period

Authors 1, 2

Affiliations

  1. Dipartimento di Matematica 'Ulisse Dini', Università di Firenze, Viale G. B. Morgagni 67/A, 50134 Firenze, Italy
  2. Department of Mathematics, Warsaw University, Banacha 2, 02-097 Warszawa, Poland

Abstract

We investigate a mathematical model of population dynamics for a population of two sexes (male and female) in which new individuals are conceived in a process of mating between individuals of opposed sexes and their appearance is postponed by a period of gestation. The model is a system of two partial differential equations with delay which are additionally coupled by mathematically complicated boundary conditions. We show that this model has a global solution. We also analyze stationary ('permanent') solutions and show that such solutions exist if the model parameters satisfy two nonlinear relations.

Keywords

differential equations with delay, stationary solutions, population dynamics, mathematical modelling

Bibliography

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  2. K. P. Hadeler, Pair formation models with maturation period, J. Math. Biology 32 (1993), 1-15.
  3. L. Teglielli, Dinamica di popolazioni a due sessi, Ricerca di soluzioni per sistenti, Università di Firenze, 1998.
Pages:
21-34
Main language of publication
English
Received
1999-01-15
Published
2000
Exact and natural sciences