A variational problem associated with the minimal speed of traveling waves for spatially periodic KPP type equations

DOI10.1112/PLMS.12243MaRDI QIDQ5237455zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ryunosuke Mori, Dongyuan Xiao

Publication date 18 October 2019

Published in Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.09778

zbMATH Keywords

Euler-Lagrange equationKPP equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Traveling wave solutions (35C07) Semilinear parabolic equations (35K58) Estimates of eigenvalues in context of PDEs (35P15) Variational methods for eigenvalues of operators (49R05) Ecology (92D40)

Abstract: We consider a variational problem associated with the minimal speed of pulsating traveling waves of the equation $u_t=u_{xx}+b(x)(1-u)u$, $xinmathbbR,t>0$, where the coefficient $b(x)$ is nonnegative and periodic in $xinmathbbR$ with a period $L>0$. It is known that there exists a quantity $c^{\ast }(b)>0$ such that a pulsating traveling wave with the average speed $c>0$ exists if and only if $cgeq{c}^{\ast }(b)$. The quantity $c^{\ast }(b)$ is the so-called minimal speed of pulsating traveling waves. In this paper, we study the problem of maximizing $c^{\ast }(b)$ by varying the coefficient $b(x)$ under some constraints. We prove the existence of the maximizer under a certain assumption of the constraint and derive the Euler--Lagrange equation which the maximizer satisfies under $L^2$ constraint $$. The limit problems of the solution of this Euler--Lagrange equation as $Lightarrow0$ and as $$ are also considered. Moreover, we also consider the variational problem in a certain class of step functions under $L^p$ constraint $$ when $L$ or $$ tends to infinity.

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