Singular bifurcations in a slow-fast modified Leslie-Gower model

IF 1.4 Q2 MATHEMATICS, APPLIED Results in Applied Mathematics Pub Date : 2025-03-12 DOI:10.1016/j.rinam.2025.100558

Roberto Albarran-García , Martha Alvarez-Ramírez , Hildeberto Jardón-Kojakhmetov

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Abstract

We study a predator–prey system with a generalist Leslie–Gower predator, a functional Holling type II response, and a weak Allee effect on the prey. The prey’s population often grows much faster than its predator, allowing us to introduce a small time scale parameter

ɛ

that relates the growth rates of both species, giving rise to a slow-fast system. Zhu and Liu (2022) show that, in the case of the weak Allee effect, Hopf singular bifurcation, slow-fast canard cycles, relaxation oscillations, etc. Our main contribution lies in the rigorous analysis of a degenerate scenario organized by a (degenerate) transcritical bifurcation. The key tool employed is the blow-up method that desingularizes the degenerate singularity. In addition, we determine the criticality of the singular Hopf bifurcation using recent intrinsic techniques that do not require a local normal form. The theoretical analysis is complemented by a numerical bifurcation analysis, in which we numerically identify and analytically confirm the existence of a nearby Takens–Bogdanov point.

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