Principal spectral theory and asymptotic behavior of the spectral bound for partially degenerate nonlocal dispersal systems (Q6624897)

The author considers the principle eigenvalue and the asymptotic behavior for the spectral bound of the nonlocal dispersal systems,\N\[\Nd_i \left( \int_\Omega k_i(x,y)u_i(y)dy - \int_\Omega k_i(y,x)u_i(x)dy \right) + \sum_{j=1}^l m_{ij}(x)u_j(x)=\lambda u_i(x),\N\]\Nwith \(x\in{\overline{\Omega}},\ 1\le i\le l\). The constants \(d_i\ge0\) are diffusion coefficients, \(\Omega\) is a bounded domain in \(\mathbb{R}^N\), \(k_i(x,y)\) are non-negative continuous functions on \({\overline{\Omega}}\times{\overline{\Omega}}\), and \(m_{ij}(x)\) are continuous functions on \({\overline{\Omega}}\). In fact, this article is concerned with the partially degenerate case, where some of the diffusion coefficients are zero. Since the principle eigenvalue might not exist for such nonlocal systems, the author proposes two sufficient conditions that guarantee its existence. The asymptotic behavior of the spectral bound is also examined.