Bifurcation Analysis in an n-Dimensional Diffusive Competitive Lotka–Volterra System with Time Delay

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate the stability and Hopf bifurcation of an n-dimensional competitive Lotka–Volterra diffusion system with time delay and homogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition. We first show that there exists a positive nonconstant steady state solution satisfying the given asymptotic expressions and establish the stability of the positive nonconstant steady state solution. Regarding the time delay as a bifurcation parameter, we explore the system that undergoes a Hopf bifurcation near the positive nonconstant steady state solution and derive a calculation method for determining the direction of the Hopf bifurcation. Finally, we cite the stability of a three-dimensional competitive Lotka–Volterra diffusion system with time delay to illustrate our conclusions.