A MONOTONE-ITERATIVE METHOD FOR FINDING PERIODIC SOLUTION OF AN IMPULSIVE DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS AND APPLICATION

Abstract

In this paper, using the method of upper and lower solutions and its associated monotone iterations, we establish a new monotone-iterative scheme for finding periodic solutions of an impulsive differential equations. This method leads to the existence of maximal and minimal periodic solutions which can be computed from a linear iteration process in the same fashion as for impulsive differential equations initial value problem. This method is constructive and can be used to develop a computational algorithm for numerical solution of the periodic impulsive system. Our existence result improves a result established in [1]. The result is applied to a model of mutualism of Lotka–Volterra type which involves interactions among a mutualist-competitor, a competitor and a mutualist, the existence of positive periodic solutions of the model is obtained.