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# Global Stability of Monostable Traveling Waves For Nonlocal Time-Delayed Reaction-Diffusion Equations

(Impact Factor: 1.27). 01/2010; 42(6):2762-2790. DOI: 10.1137/090776342
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For a class of nonlocal time-delayed reaction-diffusion equations, we prove that all noncritical wavefronts are globally exponentially stable, and critical wavefronts are globally algebraically stable when the initial perturbations around the wavefront decay to zero exponentially near the negative infinity regardless of the magnitude of time delay. This work also improves and develops the existing stability results for local and nonlocal reaction-diffusion equations with delays. Our approach is based on the combination of the weighted energy method and the Green function technique.

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• "Introduction. In this work, we study the existence and uniqueness of monotone wavefronts u(x, t) = φ(x+ct) for the monostable delayed non-local reaction–diffusion equation u t (t, x) = u xx (t, x) − u(t, x) + R K(x − y)g(u(t − h, y))dy, u ≥ 0, (1) when the reaction term g : R + → R + neither is monotone nor defines a quasi-monotone functional in the sense of Wu-Zou [47] or Martin-Smith [32] and when the non-negative kernel K(s) is Lebesgue integrable on R. Equation (1) is an important object of studies in the population dynamics, see [6] [14] [17] [20] [28] [29] [33] [34] [41] [42] [45] [48] [49] [50]. Taking formally K(s) = δ(s), the Dirac delta function, we obtain the diffusive Mackey-Glass type equation u t (t, x) = u xx (t, x) − u(t, x) + g(u(t − h, x)), u ≥ 0, (2) another popular focus of investigation, see [19] [24] [44] for more details and references. "
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• "This problem is important because the spreading speeds c of the traveling waves in the biological applications usually are the minimum speed (i.e. the critical speed) [27] [36]. This problem is also challenging because the analytical approaches for stability of critical wavefronts by now are very limited, only case by case studies [18] [21]. Furthermore, when the critical traveling waves are oscillatory , their stability analysis is even more difficult. "
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• "The nonlocal terms usually yield some gaps in the L 2 -energy estimates, which cause us to need to take c 1 so then we can control these gaps. In order to avoid such a trouble, for the case of nonlocal but still monotone equation, Mei-Ou-Zhao [26], Mei-Wang [27] and Huang-Mei- Wang [15] showed the stability for all (monotone) traveling waves with c ≥ c * by the L 1 -energy method but it sufficiently depends on the advantage of the monotonicity of both the equation itself and the traveling waves. Notice that, in this paper the equation (1) is nonlocal and non-monotone, and the traveling waves may be oscillating when r is big, so the above mentioned approaches, including the regular weighted energy method, the monotone method and Fourier transform method, they all seem to fail in obtaining the stability of the wavefronts for (1). "
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