TY - JOUR ID - Liu2011 LB - Liu2011 AU - Liu, Xinggui AU - Ren, Yaping AU - Li, Yongkun TI - Four positive periodic solutions of a discrete time Lotka-Volterra competitive system with harvesting terms ST - Four positive periodic solutions of a discrete time Lotka-Volterra competitive system with harvesting terms JO - Opuscula Math. JA - Opuscula Math. JF - Opuscula Mathematica PY - 2011 VL - 31 IS - 2 SP - 257 EP - 267 DO - http://dx.doi.org/10.7494/OpMath.2011.31.2.257 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.7494/OpMath.2011.31.2.257 AB - In this paper, by using Mawhin's continuation theorem of coincidence degree theory, we establish the existence of at least four positive periodic solutions for a discrete time Lotka-Volterra competitive system with harvesting terms. An example is given to illustrate the effectiveness of our results. KW - discrete systems KW - Lotka-Volterra competitive models KW - coincidence degree KW - harvesting terms SN - 1232-9274 ER -