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Biological models, monotonicity methods, and solving a discrete reaction-diffusion equation. (English) Zbl 1535.39003

Summary: The problem of interest is a discrete reaction-diffusion equation motivated by models in population biology. We consider \[ Au+\phi (u)+\lambda f(u)=0 \quad \text{for } u\in \mathbb{R}^{n-1}, \] where \(n\geq 3, A\) is an \((n-1) \times (n-1)\) matrix such that \(-A\) is monotone, \(\phi :\mathbb{R}^{n-1} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}^{n-1}\) and \(f:\mathbb{R}^{n-1}\rightarrow \mathbb{R}^{n-1}\) are smooth functions, and \(\lambda\) is a positive real constant. Of particular interest is the case where \(A\) is the discrete Laplacian and \(f\) is the vector-valued logistic function. The function \(\phi (u)\) will encode boundary conditions. Our primary goal is to establish the existence of nonnegative solutions for several interesting choices of \(\phi\). For each choice we use monotonicity methods to find nonnegative solutions for appropriate ranges of \(\lambda\).

MSC:

39A27 Boundary value problems for difference equations
39A12 Discrete version of topics in analysis
37N25 Dynamical systems in biology
92D25 Population dynamics (general)
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