Monotone traveling wavefronts of the KPP-Fisher delayed equation

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Abstract: In the early 2000's, Gourley (2000), Wu et al. (2001), Ashwin et al. (2002) initiated the study of the positive wavefronts in the delayed Kolmogorov-Petrovskii-Piskunov-Fisher equation. Since then, this model has become one of the most popular objects in the studies of traveling waves for the monostable delayed reaction-diffusion equations. In this paper, we give a complete solution to the problem of existence and uniqueness of monotone waves in the KPP-Fisher equation. We show that each monotone traveling wave can be found via an iteration procedure. The proposed approach is based on the use of special monotone integral operators (which are different from the usual Wu-Zou operator) and appropriate upper and lower solutions associated to them. The analysis of the asymptotic expansions of the eventual traveling fronts at infinity is another key ingredient of our approach.


This paper is concerned with the problem of existence and uniqueness of monotone wavefronts for the equation \[ u_t (t,x)=\Delta u(t,x)+u(t,x)(1-u(t-h,x)), \quad u\geq 0,\;x\in\mathbb R^m. \] Motivated by the paper by \textit{J. Wu} and \textit{X. Zou} [J. Dyn. Differ. Equations 13, No.~3, 651--687 (2001; Zbl 0996.34053)], the authors prove the existence and uniqueness of monotone waves for the above problem. More precisely, using appropriate monotone integral operators, which are different from the ones considered by J. Wu and X. Zou, and the upper-lower solutions technique, the authors prove that each monotone traveling wave can be obtained as a limit of an iterative procedure.



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