Pest control through viral disease: mathematical modeling and analysis |
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Authors: | Bhattacharyya S Bhattacharya D K |
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Affiliation: | Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Calcutta, 35 B.C. Road, Calcutta 700 019, India. samit_math@rediffmail.com |
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Abstract: | This paper deals with the mathematical modeling of pest management under viral infection (i.e. using viral pesticide) and analysis of its essential mathematical features. As the viral infection induces host lysis which releases more virus into the environment, on the average 'kappa' viruses per host, kappain(1,infinity), the 'virus replication parameter' is chosen as the main parameter on which the dynamics of the infection depends. We prove that there exists a threshold value kappa(0) beyond which the endemic equilibrium bifurcates from the free disease one. Still for increasing kappa values, the endemic equilibrium bifurcates towards a periodic solution. We further analyse the orbital stability of the periodic orbits arising from bifurcation by applying Poor's condition. A concluding discussion with numerical simulation of the model is then presented. |
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Keywords: | Pest control Viral infection Saddle-node bifurcation Hopf bifurcation Poore's condition |
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