Abstract
For pt.II, see J. Math. Anal., vol.16, p.423 (1985). Persistent trajectories of the n-dimensional system xi=xiNi(x1, . . ., xn), xi>or=0, are studied under the assumptions that the system is competitive and dissipative with irreducible community matrices ( delta Ni/ delta xj). The main result is that there is a canonically defined countable (generically finite) family of disjoint invariant open (n-1) cells which attract all non-convergent persistent trajectories. These cells are Lipschitz submanifolds and are transverse to positive rays. In dimension 3 this implies that an omega limit set of a persistent orbit is either an equilibrium, a cycle bounding an invariant disc, or a one-dimensional continuum having a non-trivial first Cech cohomology group and containing an equilibrium. Thus the existence of a persistent trajectory in the three-dimensional case implies the existence of a positive equilibrium. In any dimension it is shown that if the community matrices are strictly negative then there is a closed invariant (n-1) cell which attracts every persistent trajectory. This shows that a seemingly special construction by Smale (1976) of certain competitive systems is in fact close to the general case.
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