Abstract
In the one-dimensional space, traveling wave solutions of parabolic differential equations have been widely studied and well characterized. Recently, the mathematical study on higher-dimensional traveling fronts has attracted a lot of attention and many new types of nonplanar traveling waves have been observed for scalar reaction-diffusion equations with various nonlinearities. In this paper, by using the comparison argument and constructing appropriate super- and subsolutions, we study the existence, uniqueness and stability of threedimensional traveling fronts of pyramidal shape for monotone bistable systems of reaction-diffusion equations in R3. The pyramidal traveling fronts are characterized as either a combination of planar traveling fronts on the lateral surfaces or a combination of two-dimensional V-form waves on the edges of the pyramid. In particular, our results are applicable to some important models in biology, such as Lotka-Volterra competition-diffusion systems with or without spatio-temporal delays, and reaction-diffusion systems of multiple obligate mutualists.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 1-40 |
Number of pages | 40 |
Journal | Science China Mathematics |
DOIs | |
State | Accepted/In press - Aug 3 2016 |
Keywords
- bistability
- existence
- pyramidal traveling fronts
- reaction-diffusion systems
- stability
- uniqueness
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Mathematics(all)