Multiple Attractors for a Competitive System of Rational Difference Equations in the Plane
We investigate global dynamics of the following systems of difference equationsxn+1=β1xn/(B1xn+yn),yn+1=(α2+γ2yn)/(A2+xn),n=0,1,2,…, where the parametersβ1,B1,β2,α2,γ2,A2are positive numbers, and initial conditionsx0andy0are arbitrary nonnegative numbers such thatx0+y0>0. We show that this system has up to three equilibrium points with various dynamics which depends on the part of parametric space. We show that the basins of attractions of different locally asymptotically stable equilibrium points or nonhyperbolic equilibrium points are separated by the global stable manifolds of either saddle points or of nonhyperbolic equilibrium points. We give an example of globally attractive nonhyperbolic equilibrium point and semistable non-hyperbolic equilibrium point.