Coexistence states in a cross-diffusion system of a competition model

Abstract

The main goal of this paper is to study the stationary problem for a Lotka–Volterra competition system with advection under homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions. By using global bifurcation theory, we establish the sufficient conditions on terms of the birth rates of two competing species assuring the existence of positive solutions. Moreover, some sufficient conditions for the nonexistence of positive solutions are also given. These contrast with the mathematical analyses carried out by Kuto and Tsujikawa (2015) and Wang and Yan (2015), where the corresponding Neumann problem is analyzed.