<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!DOCTYPE article  PUBLIC "-//NLM//DTD Journal Publishing DTD v3.0 20080202//EN" "http://dtd.nlm.nih.gov/publishing/3.0/journalpublishing3.dtd"><article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="3.0" xml:lang="en" article-type="research article"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">OJAppS</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Open Journal of Applied Sciences</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="epub">2165-3917</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Scientific Research Publishing</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.4236/ojapps.2017.75018</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">OJAppS-76704</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Articles</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="Discipline-v2"><subject>Biomedical&amp;Life Sciences</subject><subject> Chemistry&amp;Materials Science</subject><subject> Computer Science&amp;Communications</subject><subject> Engineering</subject><subject> Physics&amp;Mathematics</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>
 
 
  Global Stability for a Asymptotically Periodic Cooperative Lotka-Volterra System with Time Delays
 
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Talat</surname><given-names>Tayir</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"><sup>1</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Rouzimaimaiti</surname><given-names>Mahemuti</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"><sup>1</sup></xref></contrib></contrib-group><aff id="aff1"><addr-line>College of Mathematics and System Sciences, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, China</addr-line></aff><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>31</day><month>05</month><year>2017</year></pub-date><volume>07</volume><issue>05</issue><fpage>207</fpage><lpage>212</lpage><history><date date-type="received"><day>March</day>	<month>20,</month>	<year>2017</year></date><date date-type="rev-recd"><day>Accepted:</day>	<month>May</month>	<year>28,</year>	</date><date date-type="accepted"><day>May</day>	<month>31,</month>	<year>2017</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement>&#169; Copyright  2014 by authors and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. </copyright-statement><copyright-year>2014</copyright-year><license><license-p>This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>
 
 
  In this paper a class of cooperative Lotka-Volterra population system with time delay is considered. Some sufficient conditions on the existence and globally asymptotically stability for the asymptotically periodic solution of the system are established by using the Lyapunov function method and the method given in Fengying Wei and Wang Ke (Applied Mathematics and Computation 182 (2006) 161-165).
 
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Lotka-Volterra Cooperative System</kwd><kwd> Asymptotically Periodic Function</kwd><kwd> Global Asymptotic Stability</kwd><kwd> Time Delay</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><body><sec id="s1"><title>1. Introduction</title><p>Since Lotka-Volterra system has been established and was accepted by many scientists, it becomes the most important means to explain the ecological phenomenon now. For many years, a lot of extensive research results were made in mathematical biology and mathematical ecology [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.76704-ref1">1</xref>] - [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.76704-ref8">8</xref>] , during this time Lotka- Volterra system has played an important role in theses research field of mathematical biology and mathematical ecology. Still now many research work mostly discussed periodic Lotka-Volterra systems [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.76704-ref2">2</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.76704-ref3">3</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.76704-ref4">4</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.76704-ref5">5</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.76704-ref6">6</xref>] and the references cited therein. In fact asymptotically periodic systems [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.76704-ref3">3</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.76704-ref4">4</xref>] describe our world more realistic and more accurate than periodic ones.</p><p>As is well known, Lotka-Volterra Cooperative system is one of the most important classe of interaction model which is discussed widely in mathematical biology and mathematical ecology.</p><p>In this paper we consider the following Lotka-Volterra cooperative system with time delay:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.76704-formula14"><label>(1)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x2.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x3.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x4.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>are the density of two cooperative species at time t respectively, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x5.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>are intrinsic growth rate of two cooperative species at time t respectively, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x6.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x7.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>are the intra patch restriction density of species<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x8.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x9.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, at time t respectively, and<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x10.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x11.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>are the are cooperative coefficients between two species at time t respectively. In this paper we assume that system (1) satisfies the following assumption</p><p>(H1) <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x12.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>is a positive constant and<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x13.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x14.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x15.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x16.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x17.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> are continuous, asymptotically periodic, bounded and strictly positive functions on<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x18.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>.</p><p>From the viewpoint of mathematical biology, in this paper, for system (1) we consider the solution with the following initial condition</p><disp-formula id="scirp.76704-formula15"><label>(2)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x19.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><disp-formula id="scirp.76704-formula16"><label>(3)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x20.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>then for any<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x21.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x21.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x22.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>System (1) with initial conditions has a unique solution denoted by<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x21.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x22.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x23.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>.</p><p>For a continuous and bounded function<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x24.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, we define</p><p><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x25.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x25.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x26.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula></p><p>Y. Nakata and Y. Muroya have proved in [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.76704-ref1">1</xref>] that the system (1) is permanent under the following conditions</p><p><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x27.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x27.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x28.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula></p><p>where</p><p><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x29.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>for <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x29.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x30.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x29.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x30.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x31.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula></p><p>which means that the system (1) had a bounded region that is</p><disp-formula id="scirp.76704-formula17"><label>(4)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x32.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>In particularly,</p><disp-formula id="scirp.76704-formula18"><label>(5)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x33.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><disp-formula id="scirp.76704-formula19"><label>(6)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x34.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><disp-formula id="scirp.76704-formula20"><label>(7)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x35.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><disp-formula id="scirp.76704-formula21"><label>(8)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x36.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x37.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is the unique positive solution of<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x37.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x38.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, and p is a positive constant such that,</p><disp-formula id="scirp.76704-formula22"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x39.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Let the set</p><disp-formula id="scirp.76704-formula23"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x40.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x41.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> are given above, then set <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x41.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x42.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is the ultimately bounded set of system (1)</p><p>Following is the adjoin system (2) of system (1)</p><disp-formula id="scirp.76704-formula24"><label>(9)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x43.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Now, we present a useful definition</p><p>Definition 1.1 (see [ [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.76704-ref3">3</xref>] Definition 1.1]) <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x44.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>is called asymptotically periodic function, if <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x44.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x45.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is a continuous function mapping from <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x44.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x45.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x46.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> to<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x44.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x45.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x46.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x47.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, and satisfies</p><disp-formula id="scirp.76704-formula25"><label>, (10)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x48.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x49.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is a continuous periodic function and<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x49.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x50.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>.</p><p>Now, we present some useful lemmas.</p><p>Lemma 2.1 The set <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x51.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is the positively invariant set of system (1)</p><p>Proof. We can obtain for <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x52.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula></p><disp-formula id="scirp.76704-formula26"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x53.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><disp-formula id="scirp.76704-formula27"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x54.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>our results will be discussed in the positively invariant set<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x55.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>.</p><p>Let the set</p><disp-formula id="scirp.76704-formula28"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x56.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x57.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> are given above (in Introduction).</p><p>Lemma 2.2 Assume that <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x58.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> then system (1) is permanent, where <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x58.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x59.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x58.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x59.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x60.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>.</p><p>Lemma 2.3 ( [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.76704-ref4">4</xref>] ) Let <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x61.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> satisfy</p><p>1)<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x62.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, where <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x62.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x63.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> are <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x62.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x63.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x64.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> are continuously positively increasing functions;</p><p>2)<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x65.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x65.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x66.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>is a constant and satisfies<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x65.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x66.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x67.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>;</p><p>3) There exists continuous function<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x68.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, such that for<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x68.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x69.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>,<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x68.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x69.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x70.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. And as<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x68.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x69.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x70.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x71.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x68.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x69.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x70.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x71.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x72.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, it follows that <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x68.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x69.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x70.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x71.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x72.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x73.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, where <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x68.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x69.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x70.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x71.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x72.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x73.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x74.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is a constant and satisfies<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x68.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x69.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x70.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x71.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x72.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x73.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x74.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x75.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>.</p><p>Furthermore, system (2.7) has a solution <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x76.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> for <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x76.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x77.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and satisfies<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x76.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x77.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x78.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. Then system (2.7) has a unique asymptotically periodic solution, which is uniformly asymptotically stable.</p><p>Our main purpose is to establish some sufficient conditions on the existence and globally asymptotically stability for the asymptotically periodic solution of the system (1). The method used in this paper is motivated by the work done by Fengying Wei and Wang Ke in [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.76704-ref4">4</xref>] and the Lyapunov function method.</p></sec><sec id="s2"><title>2. Main Results</title><p>Theorem 2.1 Assume that the condition of lemma 2.2 is hold and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x79.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, then there exists a unique asymptotically periodic solution of system (1), which is uniformly asymptotically stable. (W defined in the proof)</p><p>Proof. From Lemma 2.2, we know that the solution of system (1) is ultimately bounded. <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x80.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>is the region of ultimately bounded. We consider the adjoint system (2) of system (1)</p><p>For <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x81.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x81.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x82.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> are the solution of system (2) in<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x81.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x82.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x83.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. Let<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x81.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x82.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x83.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x84.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. Next we construct a Lyapunov functional as follows:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.76704-formula29"><label>(11)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x85.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Take <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x86.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and by using the inequality</p><p><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x87.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, we can easily prove 1) and 2). To check the condition 3) of Lemma 2.3, we need to calculate upper-right derivative of system (2):</p><disp-formula id="scirp.76704-formula30"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x88.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x89.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and we take</p><disp-formula id="scirp.76704-formula31"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x90.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Then we have</p><disp-formula id="scirp.76704-formula32"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x91.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>By the following formula:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.76704-formula33"><label>(12)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x92.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><disp-formula id="scirp.76704-formula34"><label>(13)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x93.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x94.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> lie in between <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x94.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x95.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x94.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x95.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x96.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> respectively, then <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x94.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x95.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x96.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x97.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. let<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x94.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x95.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x96.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x97.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x98.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x94.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x95.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x96.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x97.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x98.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x99.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>and if<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x94.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x95.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x96.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x97.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x98.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x99.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x100.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, where <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x94.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x95.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x96.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x97.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x98.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x99.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x100.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x101.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is a constant ,then we have</p><disp-formula id="scirp.76704-formula35"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x102.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x103.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>.</p><p>From the known condition of Theorem 2.1, we obtain that<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x104.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x104.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x105.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. Then 3) of Lemma 2.3 is satisfied. has system (1) has a unique positive asymptotically periodic solution in domain<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x104.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x105.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/1-2310720x106.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, which is uniformly asymptotically stable. The proof is complete.</p></sec><sec id="s3"><title>3. Conclusions</title><p>In [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.76704-ref1">1</xref>] the author’s discussed system (1) and derived some sufficient conditions on the permanence of system (1). However, in this paper, based on the permanence of the system (1), we further study system (1) in a asymptotically periodic environment and established conditions on the existence and globally asymptotically stability for the asymptotically periodic solution of the system (1) by using the Lyapunov function method and the method given in Fengying Wei and Wang Ke (Applied Mathematics and Computation 182 (2006) 161 - 165).</p><p>We have more interesting topics deserve further investigation, such as the dynamical behaviors of n-species Lotka-Volterra cooperative systems with discrete time delays.</p></sec><sec id="s4"><title>Acknowledgements</title><p>This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11401509).</p></sec><sec id="s5"><title>Cite this paper</title><p>Tayir, T. and Mahemuti, R. (2017) Global Stability for a Asymptotically Periodic Cooperative Lotka- Volterra System with Time Delays. 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