A BARRIER BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEM FOR PARABOLIC AND ELLIPTIC EQUATIONS (Q2769482)

In population genetics the following one-dimensional model is considered \[ u_t-cu_{xx}= su(1-u),\quad x\neq 0,\tag{1} \] \[ {\partial\over \partial x}u(0-)= \bigl[u(0)\bigr]= {\partial \over\partial x}u(0+).\tag{2} \] Here \(u\) is an allele frequency, \([u(0)]=u(0+)-u(0-)\) is the change of allele frequency across the barrier located at 0 and \(s,\lambda\) are constants. The object of the reviewed paper is to provide a systematic theory for semilinear parabolic and elliptic (in the stationary case) equations generalizing (1),(2) with immersed barrier in a bounded domain in \(\mathbb{R}^n\). Several theorems concerning the existence and regularity of solutions are proved.