ON THE NUMBER OF POSITIVE PERIODIC SOLUTIONS OF FUNCTIONAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS AND POPULATION MODELS

In this paper, we employ the fixed point index on cones to study the existence, multiplicity and nonexistence of positive periodic solutions to a system of infinite delay equations, in which λ > 0 is a parameter. We prove some general theorems and establish new periodicity conditions for several population growth models.

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