Traveling waves in a nonlocal dispersal epidemic model with spatio-temporal delay (Q2308273)

It is well known that the Laplacian operator describes the local range process, while the nonlocal dispersal operator is better to represent the long range movements of individuals of biological species. \textit{F.-Y. Yang} et al. [Nonlinear Anal., Real World Appl. 23, 129--147 (2015; Zbl 1354.92096)] introduced the nonlocal dispersal into the classical epidemic model with the standard incidence, and proved the existence and nonexistence of traveling wave solutions by Schauder's fixed point theorem and the Laplace transform. In the paper under review the authors study the spatio-temporal delayed counterpart of the equation in the article by Yang et al. By constructing a pair of upper-lower solutions and an invariant cone in $\mathbb{R}$, and applying Schauder's fixed point theorem, they first prove the existence of super-critical traveling waves. Then, they utilize a subtle analysis to derive the asymptotic boundary of the super-critical traveling waves. Meanwhile, they use the upper-lower solution method together with Schauder's fixed point theorem to investigate the existence of critical traveling waves.