Existence and uniqueness of the solution of a space-time periodic reaction-diffusion equation (Q994293)

The author is concerned with the study of periodic solutions and entire solutions of the equation \[ \partial _tu-\nabla \cdot \left( A(t,x)\nabla u\right) +q(t,x)\cdot \nabla u=f(t,x,u) \] where the diffusion matrix \(A\), the advection term \(q\) and the reaction term \(f\) are periodic in \(t\) and \(x\). First, the author proves that the existence and the uniqueness of the periodic positive solution are fully determined by the sign of the generalized principal eigenvalue associated with the linearized problem. In particular, the author uses two generalized eigenvalues to be able to state uniqueness conditions for the entire solution and to derive the asymptotic behavior of the solutions of the associated Cauchy problem.