Existence and uniqueness of traveling waves in a class of unidirectional lattice differential equations (Q536122)

In the present paper, the authors prove the existence and uniqueness, for sufficiently large wave speeds, of monotone traveling wave solutions connecting stable to unstable spatial equilibria for a class of \(N\)-dimensional lattice differential equations with unidirectional coupling. This class of lattice equations includes some cellular neural networks, monotone systems, and semi-discretizations for hyperbolic conservation laws with a source term. The authors obtain a variational characterization of the critical wave speed, above which monotone traveling wave solutions are guaranteed to exist. They also discuss non-monotone waves, and the coexistence of monotone and non-monotone waves.