Wavefronts for a cooperative tridiagonal system of differential equations

DOI10.1007/BF01053165MaRDI QIDQ2368052zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Darrel Hankerson, Bertram Zinner

Publication date 22 August 1993

Published in Journal of Dynamics and Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01053165

infinite system of Nagumo type nonlinear differential equations wave fronts

Ordinary differential equations of infinite order (34A35) Dynamical systems and ergodic theory (37-XX) Biophysics (92C05)

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Consider the infinite system of Nagumo type nonlinear differential equations \[ \dot u_ n=f(u_{n-1},u_ n,u_{n+1}),\;n\in Z, \tag{*} \] where \(f\in c'\), \(D_ 1f>0\), \(D_ 3f>0\) and \(f(0,0,0)=0=f(1,1,1)\). The authors show the existence of wave fronts, that is, solutions of the form \(u_ n(t)=U(n+ct)\), where \(c\in\mathbb{R}\), \(U(-\infty)=0\), \(U(+\infty)=1\), and \(U\) is strictly increasing for the equation \((*)\), when \(f\) satisfies the condition: there exists \(a\), \(0<a<1\), such that \(f(x,x,x)<0\) for \(0<x<a\), \(f(x,x,x)>0\) for \(a<x<1\) and \(\sum^ 3_{i=1}D_ if(a,a,a)>0\).

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