Validity of formal asymptotic expansions for singularly perturbed competition-diffusion systems

DOI10.1137/18M1170625zbMATH Open1411.35163arXiv1801.00081OpenAlexW2934112416WikidataQ128145486 ScholiaQ128145486MaRDI QIDQ4630241FDOQ4630241

Authors: Ryunosuke Mori 

Publication date: 29 March 2019

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

Abstract: We consider a two-species competition-diffusion system involving a small parameter $varepsilon>0$ and discuss the validity of formal asymptotic expansions of solutions near the sharp interface limit $varepsilonapprox0$. We assume that the corresponding ODE system has two stable equilibria. As in the scalar Allen--Cahn equation, it is known that the motion of the sharp interfaces of such systems is governed by the mean curvature flow with a driving force. The formal expansion also suggests that the profile of the transition layers converges to that of a traveling wave solution as $varepsilonightarrow0$. In this paper, we rigorously verify this latter ansatz for a large class of initial data. The proof relies on a rescaling argument, the super--subsolution method and a Liouville type theorem for eternal solutions of parabolic systems. Roughly speaking, the Liouville type theorem states that any eternal solution that lies between two traveling waves is itself a traveling wave. The same Liouville type theorem was established for the scalar Allen--Cahn equation by Berestycki and Hamel. In view of their importance, we prove the Liouville type theorems in a rather general framework, not only for two-species competition-diffusion systems but also for $m$-species cooperation-diffusion systems possibly with time periodic or spatially periodic coefficients.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.00081

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zbMATH Keywords

asymptotic expansionsingular perturbationLiouville type theorembistablefront profilecompetition-diffusion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Singular perturbations in context of PDEs (35B25) Liouville theorems and Phragmén-Lindelöf theorems in context of PDEs (35B53) Second-order parabolic systems (35K40) Reaction-diffusion equations (35K57)

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