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Positive travelling fronts for reaction-diffusion systems with distributed delay

Teresa Faria·Sergei Trofimchuk
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We give sufficient conditions for the existence of positive travelling wave solutions for multi-dimensional autonomous reaction-diffusion systems with distributed delay. To prove the existence of travelling waves, we give an abstract formulation of the equation for the wave profiles in some suitable Banach spaces, and apply known results about the index of some associated Fredholm operators. After a Liapunov-Schmidt reduction, these waves are obtained via the Banach contraction principle, as perturbations of a positive heteroclinic solution for the associated system without diffusion, whose existence is proven under some requirements. By a careful analysis of the exponential decay of the travelling wave profiles at $-\infty$, their positiveness is deduced. The existence of positive travelling waves is important in terms of applications to biological models. Our method applies to systems of delayed reaction-diffusion equations whose nonlinearities are not required to satisfy a quasi-monotonicity condition. Applications are given, and include the delayed Fisher-KPP equation.

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Teresa Faria, Sergei Trofimchuk. 2010-05-17. Positive travelling fronts for reaction-diffusion systems with distributed delay. https://doi.org/10.1088/0951-7715%2F23%2F10%2F006

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