Critical periodic traveling waves for a Kermack-McKendrick epidemic model with diffusion and seasonality (Q2122151)

In this paper, the authors study the existence and exponential decay of traveling waves with the critical speed for a periodic and diffusive Kermack-McKendrick epidemic model. In particular, they give the existence result based on a delicate analysis of periodic traveling waves with super-critical speeds and strong maximum principle of parabolic equations. This paper solves several open problems in previous research literature.