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Connectivity is the safety network for biodiversity conservation because connected habitats are more effective for saving the species and ecological functions. The nature of coupling for connectivity also plays an important role in the co-existence of species in cyclic-dominance. The rock-paper-scissors game is one of the paradigmatic mathematical model in evolutionary game theory to understand the mechanism of biodiversity in cyclic-dominance. In this paper, the metapopulation model for rock-paper-scissors with mutations is presented in which the total population is divided into patches and the patches form a network of complete graph. The migration among patches is allowed through simple random walk. The replicator-mutator equations are used with the migration term. When migration is allowed then the population of the patches will synchronized and attain stable state through Hopf bifurcation. Apart form this, two phases are observed when the strategies of one of the species mutate to other two species: co-existence of all the species phase and existence of one kind of species phase. The transition from one phase to another phase is taking place due to transcritical bifurcation. The dynamics of the population of species of rock, paper, scissors is studied in the environment of homogeneous and heterogeneous mutation. Numerical simulations have been performed when mutation is allowed in all the patches (homogeneous mutation) and some of the patches (heterogeneous mutation). It has been observed that when the number of patches is increased in the case of heterogeneous mutation then the population of any of the species will not extinct and all the species will co-exist.

Classic frameworks of rock-paper-scissors game have been assumed in a closed community that a density of each group is only affected by internal factors such as competition interplay among groups and reproduction itself. In real systems in ecological and social sciences, however, the survival and a change of a density of a group can be also affected by various external factors. One of common features in real population systems in ecological and social sciences is population flow that is characterized by population inflow and outflow in a group or a society, which has been usually overlooked in previous works on models of rock-paper-scissors game. In this paper, we suggest the rock-paper-scissors system by implementing population flow and investigate its effect on biodiversity. For two scenarios of either balanced or imbalanced population flow, we found that the population flow can strongly affect group diversity by exhibiting rich phenomena. In particular, while the balanced flow can only lead the persistent coexistence of all groups which accompanies a phase transition through supercritical Hopf bifurcation on different carrying simplices, the imbalanced flow strongly facilitates rich dynamics such as alternative stable survival states by exhibiting various group survival states and multistability of sole group survivals by showing not fully covered but spirally entangled basins of initial densities due to local stabilities of associated fixed points. In addition, we found that, the system can exhibit oscillatory dynamics for coexistence by relativistic interplay of population flows which can capture the robustness of the coexistence state. Applying population flow in the rock-paper-scissors system can ultimately change a community paradigm from closed to open one, and our foundation can eventually reveal that population flow can be also a significant factor on a group density which is independent to fundamental interactions among groups.

Recently, Alaca et al. [Alaca et al., Chaos, Solitons & Fractals 2006;29:1073–9] proved some fixed point theorems in intuitionistic fuzzy metric spaces by a strong definition of Cauchy sequence (see [George and Veeramani, Fuzzy Sets Syst 1994;64:395–9] and [Veeramani and Vasuki, Fuzzy Sets Syst 2003;135:409–13]), also the intuitionistic fuzzy metric space has extra conditions (see [Gregori et al., Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2006;28:902–5]). In this paper, we consider generalized intuitionistic fuzzy metric spaces i.e., L -fuzzy metric spaces and prove the fuzzy version of Banach and Edelstein contraction theorems in these spaces for modified definition of Cauchy sequence.

In this paper, it is shown that von Neumann continuous geometry may be regarded as the first attempt towards formulating a general quantum spacetime geometry akin to that of Cantorian spacetime E(∞) and noncommutative geometry.

The purpose of this short paper is to present a new form of the so called early exercise premium for the American type derivatives. The decomposition we derived consists of the corresponding European derivative and a derivative with a stochastic maturity. In different particular cases we reach to the well known form for the American put option where the underlying asset is driven by a Brownian motion or a Levy process.

This short paper outlines the basic topological features of two new fuzzy Kahler manifolds in duality. Relation to E-infinity theory of the compactified Klein modular space in connection with ’t Hooft holographic principles is briefly discussed.

The Lie symmetry and invariants for a generalized Birkhoffian system on time scales are studied, which include exact invariants and adiabatic invariants. First, the generalized Pfaff-Birkhoff principle on time scales is established, and by using Dubois-Reymond lemma the generalized Birkhoff’s equations on time scale are derived. Secondly, the determining equations of Lie symmetry for the generalized Birkhoffian system on time scales are established. We prove that if the Lie symmetry satisfies the structural equation, it leads to a conserved quantity, which is an exact invariant of the system. Again, the perturbation of Lie symmetry under the action of small disturbance is considered, the determining equations and the structural equations of disturbed system are established, and the adiabatic invariants led by the Lie symmetry perturbation for the generalized Birkhoffian system on time scales are given. Because of the arbitrariness of selecting time scales and the generality of the generalized Birkhoffian system, the results of this paper are of universal significance. The results of this paper contain the corresponding results for Birkhoffian system on time scales and classical generalized Birkhoffian system as its special cases. At the end of the paper, an example is given to illustrate the validity of the method and the results.

The economic system is an irreversible entropy increase process which is constructed by many elements and is far away from the equilibrium point; and affected by various parameters change, it is quite common that its motion state appears chaotic phenomenon due to instability. The extremely complex and not completely random aperiodic motion form of chaotic phenomenon is strongly sensitive to initial conditions. The development of nonlinear science, especially the emergence and development of chaos and fractal theory, has gradually become a powerful tool for economists to study the complexity, uncertainty and nonlinearity of social economic systems; and some visionary economists began to apply the research results of nonlinear science to economics, which has produced nonlinear economics. On the basis of summarizing and analyzing previous research works, this paper first obtains the non-degenerate equilibrium point of some typical fractional-order chaotic economic systems and transforms the equilibrium points of those systems to the origin through coordinate transformation, and then analyzes the Jacobi matrixes of new systems obtained through coordinate translation, and the parameter conditions of bifurcation in the economic systems are finally given and the numerical simulation of the fractional-order chaotic economic system evolution is carried out through bifurcation diagram, phase diagram and time series diagram. The study results of this paper provide a reference for the further study of the evolution of fractional-order chaotic economic systems with non-degenerate equilibrium points.

In this paper, we study the existence and the numerical estimates of solutions for a specific types of fractional differential equations. The nonlinear part of the problem, however, presupposes certain hypotheses. Particularly, for exact localization of the parameter, the existence of a non-zero solution is established, which requires the sublinearity of the nonlinear part at the origin and infinity. We also take into consideration several theoretical and numerical examples. One of the main novelties of this paper is to use the variational method to investigate the properties of solutions of boundary values problems involving Atangana–Baleanu fractional derivative for the first time.

A fractional compartmental mathematical model for the spread of the COVID-19 disease is proposed. Special focus has been done on the transmissibility of super-spreaders individuals. Numerical simulations are shown for data of Galicia, Spain, and Portugal. For each region, the order of the Caputo derivative takes a different value, that is not close to one, showing the relevance of considering fractional models., This is a preprint of a paper whose final and definite form is published by 'Chaos Solitons Fractals' (ISSN: 0960-0779). Paper Submitted 04/June/2020; Revised 22/July/2020 and 02/Aug/2020; Accepted 04/Jan/2021

Research findings have shown that evolution equations containing non-integer order derivatives can lead to some useful dynamical systems which can be used to describe important physical scenarios. This paper deals with numerical simulations of multicomponent symbiosis systems, such as the parasitic predator-prey model, the commensalism system, and the mutualism case. In such models, we replace the classical time derivative with either the Caputo fractional derivative or the Atangana-Baleanu fractional derivative in the sense of Caputo. To guide in the correct choice of parameters, we report the models linear stability analysis. Numerical examples and results obtained for different instances of fractional power α are provided for non-spatial models as well as the spatial case in one and two dimensions in other to justify our theoretical findings which include the chaotic phenomena, spatiotemporal and oscillatory patterns, multiple steady states and other spatial pattern processes. This paper further suggest an alternative approach to incessant killing of wildlife animals for pattern generation and decorative purposes.

This paper is concerned with the spatiotemporal behaviors of a Gierer–Meinhardt system in discrete time and space form. Through the linear stability analysis, the parametric conditions are gained to ensure the stability of the homogeneous steady state of the system. Based on the bifurcation theory, as well as center manifold theorem, we derive the critical parameter values of the flip, Neimark–Sacker and Turing bifurcation respectively. Besides, the specific parameter expression to form patterns are also determined. In order to identify chaos among regular behaviors, we calculate the Maximum Lyapunov exponents. The results obtained in this paper are illustrated by numerical simulations. From the simulations, we can see some complex dynamics, such as period doubling cascade, invariant cycles, periodic windows, chaotic behaviors, and some striking Turing patterns, e.g. circle, mosaic, spiral, spatiotemporal chaotic patterns and so on, which can be produced by flip-Turing instability, Neimark–Sacker–Turing instability and chaos.

In a recent paper [R. Qesmi, Dynamics of an opinion model with threshold-type delay, Chaos, Solitons & Fractals 98 (2020). (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chaos.2020.110379)], we proposed a mathematical model of threshold-type delay differential equations describing the relationship between two subpopulations with opposite opinions and the opinion spread dynamics. The study there showed the possibility of a transcritical forward and backward bifurcations of positive equilibria. In the present paper, we show that the opinion model undergoes a Hopf bifurcation through which one of the bifurcation branches loses the stability and periodic solutions appear. One of the important consequences of the obtained dynamics is that the consensus of the both opinions could be lost by maintaining the balance between the time taken for an individual to become convinced of the outsider opinion, which need be short, and the number of individuals converted to the local opinion which need be low. Finally, we provide numerical simulations to illustrate and support our theoretical results. results.

This paper investigates the stability and stabilization problem of variable-order fractional nonlinear dynamic systems with impulsive effects (VO-IFNDS) via a linear feedback controller. New inequalities on the VO Caputo fractional derivatives are established in this paper, which plays an essential role in the study of the stability theory of VO-IFNDS. Based on utilizing S-procedure and analytical technique, several sufficient criteria on Mittag-Leffler stability and asymptotical stability of VO-IFNDS are presented by means of the extension of the Lyapunov direct method. Finally, numerical examples are given to show the efficiency of the proposed method.

This paper introduces self-similarity inherent in planar Milich-Jennings centered flip graphs derived from the Narayana sequence. We show that self-similarity found in a Narayana sequence yields a connected spanning subgraph with a centered flip. This paper has several main results (1) Every Narayana sequence constructs a flip graph, (2) Every Narayana sequence is self-similar and (3) Every Pascal 3-triangle has a free group presentation.

Taking the unbalance development inside a region into consideration, it will be better to express the regional electricity consumption (EC) value as an interval number to preserve more complete information. However, there are rare papers about this interesting topic. For the small amount of EC data, grey interval prediction model is employed in this paper. However, the existing models are almost all integer-order grey interval models and based on area coordinate conversion method. In order to fill this gap, and to obtain more accurate forecasting results, a conformable fractional non-homogenous discrete grey model (CFNDGM(1,1, α )) is proposed, and on the basis of CFNDGM model, two conformable fractional grey interval models are built. One is based on area coordinate conversion method (CFNDGM_AC), and the other is with information decomposition conversion method (CFNDGM_ID). The mathematical relationship of the two types of grey interval models is firstly given in this paper. It indicates that which type of model has better performance depends on the characteristics of original data. To assess the two fractional grey models, annal EC values in southern Jiangsu are taken as an example, and other four grey interval models are taken for comparison. Results show that CFNDGM_ID has the best performance among six models in both simulation and prediction. Then CFNDGM_ID is chosen to predict EC of southern Jiangsu in the next five years. To further improve forecasting accuracy, the optimal fitting size of CFNDGM_ID is selected. Forecasting results show that the EC in southern Jiangsu will increase in the next five years, but at a lower growth rate.

In order to understand the microstructure of pellets and improve the metallurgical properties of pellets, fractal theory is introduced to extract the edge features of pellets. Firstly, the original mineralogical phase is obtained by experiment, which is preprocessed by the histogram equalization to enhance the overall contrast. Based on the discrete Fractional Brownian Random Field Model, the algorithm is redesigned to calculate the dimension of each pixel, map the gray space of image into the dimension space, select the appropriate window size, transform and edge extraction. Comparing the algorithm in this paper with Canny operator and Laplace–Gauss operator, it is concluded that the algorithm in this paper has certain advantages in mineralogical phase edge extraction. Then, Gauss noise is added to the original gray image, and Canny operator and this algorithm are used to extract the edges of the noisy image. The numerical results of peak signal to noise ratio and root mean square error are obtained. Finally, the comparison proves that the algorithm can extract more complete edges, and has a stronger noise immunity.

The present paper shows the dynamics of Hepatitis E with optimal control. The paper is analyzed by two different aspects: first, we explore the dynamics of Hepatitis E model and then applying the optimal control analysis. Secondly, we use the most appropriate and recent fractional order derivative called the Atangana–Baleanu derivative for the dynamical analysis of Hepatitis E model. The proposed model considered is locally asymptotically stable when the threshold quantity less than one. Further, we explore the stability analysis of the model when R 0 > 1 . Then, we choose some appropriate control to formulate the optimality system. The results associated to the optimal control are obtained and discussed with different strategies. Moreover, we apply Atangana–Baleanu derivative to the proposed model and obtain the required results necessary for the fractional order model. Numerical results for the optimal control problem and Atangana–Baleanu derivative are obtained and discussed in detail. The results suggest that control variables chosen should be properly applied to get rid of the infection of Hepatitis E. The Atangana–Baleanu derivative results suggest that at any time t we can check the disease status and make a useful strategy for the early elimination of Hepatitis E from the community.

In this paper, we present and analyze a prey-predator system, in which prey species can be infected with some disease. The model presented in this paper is motivated from D. Mukherjee’s model in which he has considered an SI model for the prey species. There are substantial evidences that infected individuals have the ability to recover from the disease if vaccinated/ treated properly. In this regard, Mukherjee’s model is modified by considering SIS model for prey species. Theoretical and numerical simulations show that the recovery of infected prey species plays a crucial role in eliminating the limit cycle oscillations and thus making the interior equilibrium point stable. The possibility of Hopf bifurcation around non zero equilibrium point using the recovery rate as a bifurcation parameter, is discussed. Further, the model is extended by incorporating the harvesting of predator population. A monitory agency has been introduced which monitors the exploitation of resources by implementing certain taxes for each unit biomass of the predator population. The main purpose of the present research is to explore the effect of recovery rate of prey on the dynamics of the system and to optimize the total economical net profits from harvesting of predator species, taking taxation as control parameter.

This paper develops the analytical conditions for the existence of periodic solutions of a second-order,time-delayed, discontinuous dynamical system. A sample model consists of two linear delayed sub-systems with a switching boundary. The defined G-functions for the delayed, discontinuous systems are introduced, and sufficient and necessary conditions for a flow crossing, sliding and grazing along the switch boundary are developed for such a delayed, discontinuous system. Furthermore, nine (9) regular basic mappings in phase plane and thirty-three (33) delay-related mappings for the second-order, time-delayed, discontinuous systems are classified. Constraint equations are predicted analytically for two periodic orbits with initial functions provided posteriorly. Finally, three numerical examples are illustrated to verify the existence of generalized slowly oscillating periodic orbits without and with sliding portions. This paper improves and extends motion switchability conditions at the boundary in discontinuous dynamical systems without delay.