Competition between stable equilibria in reaction-diffusion systems: the influence of mobility on dominance
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Publication:6283983
arXiv1703.02159MaRDI QIDQ6283983FDOQ6283983
Authors: Emmanuel Risler 
Publication date: 6 March 2017
Abstract: This paper is concerned with reaction-diffusion systems of two symmetric species in spatial dimension one, having two stable symmetric equilibria connected by a symmetric standing front. The first order variation of the speed of this front when the symmetry is broken through a small perturbation of the diffusion coefficients is computed. This elementary computation relates to the question, arising from population dynamics, of the influence of mobility on dominance, in reaction-diffusion systems modelling the interaction of two competing species. It is applied to two examples. First a toy example, where it is shown that, depending on the value of a parameter, an increase of the mobility of one of the species may be either advantageous or disadvantageous for this species. Then the Lotka-Volterra competition model, in the bistable regime close to the onset of bistability, where it is shown that an increase of mobility is advantageous. Geometric interpretations of these results are given.
Reaction-diffusion equations (35K57) PDEs in connection with biology, chemistry and other natural sciences (35Q92)
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