Asymptotic estimates of the solutions of nonlinear integral equations and asymptotic speeds for the spread of populations.
Asymptotic estimates of the solutions of nonlinear integral equations and asymptotic speeds for the spread of populations.
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10.1515/crll.1979.306.94
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1979-03
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H. Thieme
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H. Thieme
Recently Aronson [1] extended the concept of asymptotic speed which he and Weinberger [3], [4] had developed for nonlinear diffusion problems in population genetics, combustion and nerve propagation, to an epidemic model proposed by Kendall [11], [12] in 1957 (1965). In this model (which is a spatial version of Kermack's and McKendrick's epidemic model [13]) the aflfected individuals become immediately infectious and are removed at a constant rate. The model does not take into account that with most infectious diseases the affected individuals underlie an incubation period, before they become infective, and that they remain infective for a fixed period only. These features cannot be described by the equation considered by Aronson [1] which contains a derivative with respect to time and an integral with respect to space. It is therefore desirable to extend Aronson's and Weinberger's concept of asymptotic speed to the nonlinear integral equation t J g(u(t-s,x+y))k(s9\y\)dsdy