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Existence of non-constant stable equilibria in competition-diffusion equations. (English) Zbl 0823.35090

This paper studies two competing species described by the Lotka-Volterra type reaction-diffusion equations. It considers the coexistence problem in domains which are non-convex, but not necessarily dumbbell-shaped. By using maximum principle, it proves existence of a stable non-constant stationary solution if the curvature of a boundary and the magnitude of competition-diffusion are well-balanced.

MSC:

35K57 Reaction-diffusion equations
35K50 Systems of parabolic equations, boundary value problems (MSC2000)
92D25 Population dynamics (general)