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On the controllability of predator-prey systems

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In this paper, we obtain both global and local controllability results for a general nonautonomous predator-prey system using some techniques of nonlinear functional analysis such as the Schauder fixed-point theorem and contraction mapping principle.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology, Powai, Bombay, India

    M. C. Joshi (Professor) & R. K. George (Research Student)

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Communicated by M. Pachter

The first author would like to thank the Department of Science and Technology of India for sponsoring part of this work through Grant No. DST 12(21)/84-STP II.

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Joshi, M.C., George, R.K. On the controllability of predator-prey systems. J Optim Theory Appl 74, 243–258 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00940893

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