Confining integro-differential equations originating from evolutionary biology: ground states and long time dynamics (Q6116704)

In this paper, nonlinear mutation selection models, known as replicator-mutator equations in evolutionary biology, are studied. They involve a nonlocal mutation kernel and a confining fitness potential. It is proved that the long-time behavior of the Cauchy problem is determined by the principal eigenelement of the underlying linear operator. The novelties presented here for these models are mostly for the case of symmetric mutations: a new milder sufficient condition for the existence of a principal eigenfunction is considered. Worth to be noticed is that this represents the first quantification of the spectral gap. Through a new approach, existing results in the non-symmetric case are recovered.