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Chebyshevskii Sb., 2024 Volume 25, Issue 5, Pages 90–112 (Mi cheb1496)

Periodic control of biocommunity and circle homeomorphisms

A. N. Kirillov

Institute of Applied Mathematical Research of the Karelian Research Centre of RAS (Petrozavodsk)

Abstract: To solve a problem of preserving a predator-prey biocommunity species structure, a mathematical model of periodic control process is proposed and investigated. A model is based on reducing of continuous dynamics to a discrete one generated by circle homeomorphisms.
The biocommunity dynamics is described by a three dimensional system of ordinary differential equations. Two equations present the Lotka-Volterra system, and the third one describes the dynamics of food attractivity the notion of which was introduced in [1]. The specifics of the system is such that its trajectories belong to cylindrical surfaces. The latter permits to conduct a qualitative research of the system.
The following process is modeled. At some point of time, in order to diminish the growth of prey population, which is considered as a harmful one, a predator population is transferred to a patch. The latter procedure is widely spread in practice while controlling the growth of harmful, invasive, species. If, after a while, the value of food attractivity becomes less than some threshold then the predator population leaves the patch. Thus, there arises a control problem consisting in removal of some part of predator population in such a way that for the remaining part the patch attractivity value becomes more than a threshold.
A notion of admissible piecewise constant control is proposed. The latter takes into account a possibility of its realization with the less anthropogenic load on a patch. To solve the formulated problem, a method of tangent control is proposed. On the basis of this method, a periodic control process, as the most natural if one takes into account the periodicity of the free Lotka-Volterra system, is constructed. In this case, a continuous dynamical system is reduced to a discrete one which generates circle homeomorphisms. The conditions under which a dynamical system is periodic are obtained. The explicit expressions for periods are found. The set of attainability is constructed. Also, there is considered a generalization of the control problem consisting in generating of a discrete dynamics which induces double circle rotations. In this case, the problem of finding periodic trajectories is posed.

Keywords: three-dimensional dynamical system, predator-prey biocommunity, periodic control, tangent trajectory, circle homeomorphism, controllability set, envelope.

UDC: 517.977

Received: 30.05.2024
Accepted: 26.12.2024

DOI: 10.22405/2226-8383-2024-25-5-90-112



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