Existence, uniqueness and stability of travelling waves in a discrete reaction --- diffusion monostable equation with delay (Q2569884)

The authors study the existence, uniqueness and asymptotic stability of travelling wavefronts of the equation \[ u_t(x,t)=D[u(x+1,t)+u(x-1,t)-2u(x,t)]- du(x,t)+b(u(x,t-r)), \] where \(x\in \mathbb{R}\), \(t>0\), \(D,d>0\), \(r\geq 0\), \(b\in C^1(\mathbb{R})\) and \(b(0)=0\), \(dK=b(K)\) for some \(K>0\) under monostable assumption. They show that there exists a minimal wave speed \(c^*>0\) such that for each \(c>c^*\) the equation considered has exactly one travelling wavefront \(U(x+ct)\) (up to a translation) satisfying \(U(-\infty)=0\), \(U(+\infty)=K\) and \(\limsup_{\xi\to -\infty}U(\xi)e^{-\Lambda_1(c)\xi}<+\infty\), where \(\lambda=\Lambda_1(c)\) is the smallest solution to the equation \(c\lambda-D[e^{\lambda}+e^{-\lambda}-2]+d -b'(0)e^{-\lambda cr}=0\). Moreover, the travelling wavefront is strictly monotone and asymptotically stable with phase shift in the sense that if an initial data \(\varphi\in C(\mathbb{R}\times[-r,0],[0,K])\) satisfies \(\liminf_{x\to +\infty}\varphi(x,0)>0\) and \(\lim_{x\to -\infty}\max_{s\in[-r,0]}| \varphi(x,s) e^{-\Lambda_1(c)x}- \rho_0e^{\Lambda_1(c)cs}| =0\) for some \(\rho_0\in (0,+\infty)\), then the solution \(u(x,t)\) of the corresponding initial value problem satisfies \(\lim_{t\to +\infty}\sup_{\mathbb{R}}| u(\cdot,t)/U(\cdot+ct+ \xi_0)-1| =0\) for some \(\xi_0=\xi_0(U,\varphi)\in \mathbb{R}\).