Survival of the weak in hyperbolic spaces, a remark on competition and geometry

Survival of the weak in hyperbolic spaces, a remark on competition and geometry
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Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 130 (2002), 723-726 Request permission

A simple competition model is presented. While in Euclidean spaces the weak will “die out”, in the presence of hyperbolicity, coexistence take place.

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