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December  2019, 6(2): 223-237. doi: 10.3934/jcd.2019011

A new class of integrable Lotka–Volterra systems

Helen Christodoulidi 1,2, , Andrew N. W. Hone 2,3, and  Theodoros E. Kouloukas 3,,

1. 

Research Center for Astronomy and Applied Mathematics, Academy of Athens, Athens 11527, Greece
2. 

School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Kent, Canterbury CT2 7FS, UK
3. 

School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New South Wales, Sydney NSW 2052, Australia

* Corresponding author: Theodoros E. Kouloukas

Received  March 2019 Revised  July 2019 Published  November 2019

A parameter-dependent class of Hamiltonian (generalized) Lotka–Volterra systems is considered. We prove that this class contains Liouville integrable as well as superintegrable cases according to particular choices of the parameters. We determine sufficient conditions which result in integrable behavior, while we numerically explore the complementary cases, where these analytically derived conditions are not satisfied.

Keywords: Integrable systems, superintegrability, Lotka–Volterra system, lax representation, chaotic cases.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 37K10, 70Hxx; Secondary: 70Kxx.
Citation: Helen Christodoulidi, Andrew N. W. Hone, Theodoros E. Kouloukas. A new class of integrable Lotka–Volterra systems. Journal of Computational Dynamics, 2019, 6 (2) : 223-237. doi: 10.3934/jcd.2019011
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Á. Ballesteros, A. Blasco and F. Musso, Integrable deformations of Lotka-Volterra systems, Phys. Lett. A, 375 (2011), 3370-3374.  doi: 10.1016/j.physleta.2011.07.055.  Google Scholar

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S. A. Charalambides, P. A. Damianou and C. A. Evripidou, On generalized Volterra systems, J. Geom. Phys., 87 (2015), 86-105.  doi: 10.1016/j.geomphys.2014.07.007.  Google Scholar

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B. Hernández-Bermejo and V. Fairén, Hamiltonian structure and Darboux theorem for families of generalized Lotka-Volterra systems, J. Math. Phys., 39 (1998), 6162-6174.  doi: 10.1063/1.532621.  Google Scholar

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Y. Itoh, A combinatorial method for the vanishing of the Poisson brackets of an integrable Lotka-Volterra system, J. Phys. A, 42 (2009), 11pp.  doi: 10.1088/1751-8113/42/2/025201.  Google Scholar

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J. A. Vano, J. C. Wildenberg, M. B. Anderson, J. K. Noel and J. C. Sprott, Chaos in low-dimensional Lotka-Volterra models of competition, Nonlinearity, 19 (2006), 2391-2404.  doi: 10.1088/0951-7715/19/10/006.  Google Scholar

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A. P. Veselov and A. V. Penskoï, On algebro-geometric Poisson brackets for the Volterra lattice, Regul. Chaotic Dyn., 3 (1998), 3-9.  doi: 10.1070/rd1998v003n02ABEH000066.  Google Scholar

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V. Volterra, Leçons sur la théorie mathématique de la lutte pour la vie, Les Grands Classiques Gauthier-Villars, Éditions Jacques Gabay, Sceaux, 1990.  Google Scholar

Figure 1.  The Poincaré surface of section $ x_2 = 1,x_1>1 $ for the Lotka–Volterra system with $ a_i = 1 $ and $ E = 6 $ for various $ k_i $, $ i = 1,2,3,4 $ values: (a) $ (k_1,k_2, k_3, k_4) = (-1, -2,- 1,-1) $ (b) $ (k_1,k_2, k_3, k_4) = (-1, -2,- 1,-2) $, (c) $ (k_1,k_2, k_3, k_4) = (-1,-4,-2,-3) $, (d) $ (k_1,k_2, k_3, k_4) = (-1, -4,- 2,-1) $
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Figure 2.  3D projections on the $ x_2,x_3,x_4 $ plane for the system with $ (k_1,k_2, k_3, k_4) = (-1, -4,- 2,-1) $ and for initial conditions: (a) close to a fixed point of Fig. 1(d) ($ E = 6 $), (b) on an ellipse around the fixed point ($ E = 6 $), (c) randomly chosen from Fig. 1(d) ($ E = 6 $) and (d) randomly chosen at a higher total energy ($ E = 20 $) exhibiting chaotic behavior
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Figure 3.  The Poincaré surface of section $ x_2 = 1, x_1>1 $ for the Lotka–Volterra system with $ a_i = 1 $ and $ k_i = -1 $, $ i = 1,2,3,4 $ for the energies: (a) $ E = 4.2 $, (b) $ E = 6 $, (c) $ E = 8 $, (d) $ E = 29 $
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Figure 4.  The largest Lyapunov exponent $ \lambda $ for the Lotka–Volterra system with $ a_i = 1 $ and $ k_i = -1 $, $ i = 1,2,3,4 $ for the energies: (a) $ E = 4.2 $ and (b) $ E = 29 $
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Figure 5.  The evolution in time of the phase space variables for the integrable cases: (a) $ (k_1,k_2, k_3, k_4) = (0, 0,- 1,-1) $ and (b) $ (k_1,k_2, k_3, k_4) = (-2, -2,- 2,2) $
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Figure 6.  The trajectories projected on the 3D plane $ x_1,x_3,x_4 $ plane for the integrable systems: (a) $ (k_1,k_2, k_3, k_4) = (0, 0,- 1,-1) $ and (b) $ (k_1,k_2, k_3, k_4) = (-2, -2,- 2,2) $
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Figure 7.  The largest Lyapunov exponent $ \lambda $ for the system with $ (k_1,k_2, k_3, k_4) = (-2, -2,- 2,2) $ at (b) $ E = 10 $ and (c) $ E = 72 $
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