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  • Mathematical Biology
  • Chemical Kinetics
  • Nonlinear Dynamics

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  • Reaction-diffusion models are crucial for understanding pattern formation in biological and chemical systems.
  • The Leslie-Gower model, extended to two components, presents complex dynamics.
  • Understanding bifurcations and pattern emergence is key to predicting system behavior.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate solution branches and pattern formation in a two-component Leslie-Gower reaction-diffusion model.
  • To analyze two distinct regimes of pattern emergence and stability.
  • To uncover novel mechanisms driving the formation of localized and oscillatory states.

Main Methods:

  • Numerical continuation techniques were employed to compute solution branches.
  • Two-parameter continuation was utilized to explore parameter space.
  • Analysis focused on bifurcations from homogeneous states to patterned states.

Main Results:

  • In the first regime, supercritical oscillations were followed by subcritical Turing bifurcations leading to localized states on snaking branches.
  • A novel mechanism was identified where disconnected oscillatory states form continuous snaking branches of time-periodic localized states.
  • In the second regime, supercritical Turing patterns coexist with subcritical localized states, explained by strongly subcritical sideband Turing states.

Conclusions:

  • The study reveals complex pattern formation in reaction-diffusion systems that deviate from expectations based on primary bifurcations.
  • Novel mechanisms for the emergence of stable, time-periodic localized states were discovered.
  • The findings highlight the importance of numerical continuation in uncovering complex dynamical behaviors in ecological and chemical models.