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Admissible wavefront speeds for a single species reaction-diffusion equation with delay

Dynamical Systems 2011-10-11 v1 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

We consider equation ut(t,x)=Δu(t,x)u(t,x)+g(u(th,x))()u_t(t,x) = \Delta u(t,x)- u(t,x) + g(u(t-h,x)) (*) , when g:R+R+g:\R_+\to \R_+ has exactly two fixed points: x1=0x_1= 0 and x2=κ>0x_2=\kappa>0. Assuming that gg is unimodal and has negative Schwarzian, we indicate explicitly a closed interval C=C(h,g(0),g(κ))=[c,c]\mathcal{C} = \mathcal{C}(h,g'(0),g'(\kappa)) = [c_*,c^*] such that ()(*) has at least one (possibly, nonmonotone) travelling front propagating at velocity cc for every cCc \in \mathcal{C}. Here c>0c_*>0 is finite and cR+{+}c^* \in \R_+ \cup \{+\infty\}. Every time when C\mathcal{C} is not empty, the minimal bound cc_* is sharp so that there are not wavefronts moving with speed c<cc < c_*. In contrast to reported results, the interval C\mathcal{C} can be compact, and we conjecture that some of equations ()(*) can indeed have an upper bound for propagation speeds of travelling fronts. As particular cases, Eq. ()(*) includes the diffusive Nicholson's blowflies equation and the Mackey-Glass equation with nonmonotone nonlinearity.

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@article{arxiv.math/0610025,
  title  = {Admissible wavefront speeds for a single species reaction-diffusion equation with delay},
  author = {Elena Trofimchuk and Sergei Trofimchuk},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0610025},
  year   = {2011}
}

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16 pages, submitted

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