Asymptotic spreading of a three dimensional Lotka-Volterra cooperative-competitive system (Q489263)

This paper deals with a tree-dimensional diffusive Lotka-Volterra cooperative-competitive system. By using super-sub solutions and a comparison principle, it is shown that if the functions in the initial value condition \(u_i(x, 0) = u_i^0(x)\), \(i = 1, 2, 3\), have non-empty compact support, then for any \(\varepsilon >0\), the solution of the system satisfies \(\lim_{t\to\infty}\sup_{|x| \geq (m+\varepsilon)t} u_i(x, t) = 0\), \(i = 1, 2, 3\). Moreover, under some conditions on the coefficients of the system and for \(u_i^0(x) \geq 0\), \(u_i^0(x) \not\equiv 0\), there holds \(\lim_{t\to\infty}\inf_{|x|\leq (c-\varepsilon)t} u_i(x, t) = u_i^+\), where \((u_1^+, u_2^+, u^+_3)\) is the interior equilibrium and \(m, c\) are well-defined constants.