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Front propagation for a jump process model arising in spacial ecology. (English) Zbl 1085.35017

The model studied by the authors is an integro-differential equation taking the form \(u_t=-u+\lambda(1-u)K*u\) in the space \({\mathbb R}^d,\) where \(\lambda>1\) is a constant, \(K*u\) stands for the convolution, and \(K\geq 0\) is a function such that \(\int_{{\mathbb R}^d} K(z)\, dz=1.\) It is shown that, for certain bounded solutions \(u\) of the afore mentioned equation, the region \(\Omega(t):=\{x\in{\mathbb R}^d:u(x,t)=(\lambda-1)/\lambda\}\) of colonized habitat expands and propagates at large scales with a special speed. The authors call this the phenomenon of front propagation.

MSC:

35B05 Oscillation, zeros of solutions, mean value theorems, etc. in context of PDEs
35B40 Asymptotic behavior of solutions to PDEs
45G10 Other nonlinear integral equations
45M05 Asymptotics of solutions to integral equations
92D40 Ecology