Free boundary problems and biological systems with selection rules
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Free boundary problems and biological systems with selection rules
zbMATH Open document ID: 1435.35193
author: Yanyan Li
published in: Archiv der Mathematik
publication date: 2020-01-16T00:00:00Z
review text: The main goal of this paper is to prove local existence for classical solutions of a free boundary problem which arises in one of the biological selection models proposed by \textit{E. Brunet} and \textit{B. Derrida} [``Shift in the velocity of a front due to a cutoff'', Phys. Rev. E 56, No. 3, 2597--2604 (1997; \url{doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.56.2597})]. Uniqueness follows from [\textit{A. De Masi} et al. ``Hydrodynamics of the \(N\)-BBM process'', in: Stochastic dynamics out of equilibrium. Cham: Springer. 523--549 (2017)]. The problem considered describes the limit evolution of branching Brownian particles on the line with death of the utmost particle at each creation time, as studied in [loc. cit.]. The main ingredients in the proof are results in [\textit{J. R. Cannon}, The one-dimensional heat equation. Menlo Park, California etc.: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company; Cambridge etc.: Cambridge University Press (1984; Zbl 0567.35001)] and [\textit{A. Fasano}, Mathematical models of some diffusive processes with free boundaries. Rosario: Universidad Austral, Departamento de Matemática (2005; Zbl 1122.35001)]. More especifically, fix \(b\in\mathbb{R}\), \(b>0\), \(\rho_0\in C^2_c([b,\infty))\) with \(\rho_0(b)=0\), \(\frac{d}{dx}\rho_0(b)=2\) and \(\int_b^{\infty}\rho_0(x)dx=1\). The problem at hand consists of finding a continuous curve \(X_t, \ t\ge 0\), with \(X_0=b\) and \(\rho(x,t),x\ge X_t\), \(t\ge 0\), such that \[ \rho_t(x,t)=\frac{1}{2}\rho_{xx}(x,t)+\rho(x,t), \ \ \text{ if } X_t < x, \ t>0 \] \[ \rho(X_t,t)=0, \ \ \text{ if } t \ge 0, \] \[ \rho(x,0)=\rho_0(x), \ \ \text{ if } b\le x, \] \[ \int_{X_t}^{\infty}\rho(x,t)dx=\int_b^{\infty}\rho_0(x)dx=1, \ \ \text{ if } t>0. \] A pair \((X,\rho)\) is a classical solution of the above problem in the time interval \([0,T]\), \(T>0\), if the following hold: \(X\in C^1([0,T])\), \(X_0=b\), \(\rho\in C(\overline{D_{X,T}})\cap C^{2,1}(D_{X,T})\), where \(D_{X,T}=\{(x,t) \ | \ X_t < x, \ 0 < t < T\}\), and \((X,\rho)\) …
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 35K05
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 35R35
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 35Q70
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 65C35
zbMATH DE Number: 7152186
zbMATH Keywords: free boundary problem
zbMATH Keywords: biological selection model
zbMATH Keywords: Brownian particle system
zbMATH Keywords: heat equation
reviewed by: Mariana Vega Smit
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
full work available at URL: s00013-019-01362-1
OpenAlex ID: W2958708414
Wikidata QID: Q113906386
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DOI: 10.1007/S00013-019-01362-1
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 7152186