Positive steady states of evolution equations with finite dimensional nonlinearities

DOI10.1137/130931199MaRDI QIDQ5495252zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ángel Calsina, József Z. Farkas

Publication date 31 July 2014

Published in SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1402.6266, http://hdl.handle.net/1893/20195

zbMATH Keywords

fixed points of multivalued mapsnonlinear evolution equationspositive steady statessemigroups of operatorsspectral theory of positive operatorsstructured populations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear evolution equations (47J35) Population dynamics (general) (92D25)

Abstract: We study the question of existence of positive steady states of nonlinear evolution equations. We recast the steady state equation in the form of eigenvalue problems for a parametrised family of unbounded linear operators, which are generators of strongly continuous semigroups; and a fixed point problem. In case of irreducible governing semigroups we consider evolution equations with non-monotone nonlinearities of dimension two, and we establish a new fixed point theorem for set-valued maps. In case of reducible governing semigroups we establish results for monotone nonlinearities of any finite dimension $n$. In addition, we establish a non-quasinilpotency result for a class of strictly positive operators, which are neither irreducible nor compact, in general. We illustrate our theoretical results with examples of partial differential equations arising in structured population dynamics. In particular, we establish existence of positive steady states of a size-structured juvenile-adult and a structured consumer-resource population model, as well as for a selection-mutation model with distributed recruitment process.

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