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We study a nonlinear integral equation arising from the parametric closure for the third spatial moment in the Dieckmann-Law model of stationary biological communities. The existence of a fixed point of the integral operator defined by this equation is analyzed. The noncompactness of the resulting operator is proved. Conditions are stated under which the equation in question has a nontrivial solution.
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The authors express their gratitude to Ulf Dieckmann for posing this problem and for his interest in this work.
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A.A. Nikitin’s research was supported by Russian Science Foundation, project no. 17-11-01168.
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Russian Text © The Author(s), 2019, published in Differentsial’nye Uravneniya, 2019, Vol. 55, No. 9, pp. 1209–1217.
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Nikolaev, M.V., Nikitin, A.A. Application of the Leray-Schauder Principle to the Analysis of a Nonlinear Integral Equation. Diff Equat 55, 1164–1173 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0012266119090052
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