A singular reaction-diffusion system modelling prey-predator interactions: invasion and co-extinction waves (Q432439)

A singular reaction-diffusion system arising in modelling prey-predator interactions in a fragile environment is considered. The authors devise a regularized problem to prove the existence of travelling wave solutions for predator invasion followed by a possible co-extinction tail for both species. Under suitable assumptions on the diffusion coefficients and on species growth rates, it is proved that travelling wave solutions are actually positive on a half line and identically zero elsewhere, such a property arising for every admissible wave speeds.