Positive almost periodic solutions of nonautonomous evolution equations and application to Lotka–Volterra systems

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to establish some sufficient conditions ensuring the existence and uniqueness of positive (Bohr) almost periodic solutions to a class of semilinear evolution equations of the form: . We assume that the family of closed linear operators on a Banach lattice satisfies the “Acquistapace–Terreni” conditions, so that the associated evolution family is positive and has an exponential dichotomy on . The nonlinear term , acting on certain real interpolation spaces, is assumed to be almost periodic only in a weaker sense (i.e., in Stepanov's sense) with respect to , and Lipschitzian in bounded sets with respect to the second variable. Moreover, we prove a new composition result for Stepanov almost periodic functions by assuming only continuity of with respect to the second variable (see the condition Lemma 1‐(ii)). Finally, we provide an application to a system of Lotka–Volterra predator–prey type model with diffusion and time–dependent parameters in a generalized almost periodic environment.