Spreading in space-time periodic media governed by a monostable equation with free boundaries, Part 2: Spreading speed
Spreading in space-time periodic media governed by a monostable equation with free boundaries, Part 2: Spreading speed
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由具有自由边界的单稳态方程控制的时空周期性介质中的传播,第 2 部分:传播速度
DOI:
10.1016/j.anihpc.2019.01.005
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发表时间:
2019
影响因子:
1.9
通讯作者:
Liang Xing
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作者:
Ding Weiwei;Du Yihong;Liang Xing
This is Part 2 of our work aimed at classifying the long-time behavior of the solution to a free boundary problem with monostable reaction term in space–time periodic media. In Part 1 (see [2]) we have established a theory on the existence and uniqueness of solutions to this free boundary problem with continuous initial functions, as well as a spreading-vanishing dichotomy. We are now able to develop the methods of Weinberger [15], [16] and others [6], [7], [8], [9], [10] to prove the existence of asymptotic spreading speed when spreading happens, without knowing a priori the existence of the corresponding semi-wave solutions of the free boundary problem. This is a completely different approach from earlier works on the free boundary model, where the spreading speed is determined by firstly showing the existence of a corresponding semi-wave. Such a semi-wave appears difficult to obtain by the earlier approaches in the case of space–time periodic media considered in our work here.