Entire Solutions for Nonlocal Dispersal Equations with Bistable Nonlinearity: Asymmetric Case

• Published in: Acta mathematica Sinica. English series Vol. 35; no. 11; pp. 1771 - 1794
• Main Authors: Zhang, Li, Li, Wan Tong, Wang, Zhi Cheng, Sun, Yu Juan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Beijing Institute of Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Mathematical Society 01.11.2019; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Asymmetry; Kernel functions; Mathematical analysis; Mathematics; Mathematics and Statistics; Nonlinearity; Symmetry; Traveling waves; Entire solution; traveling wave solution; asymmetry; 35K57; nonlocal dispersal; 35B08
• ISSN: 1439-8516; 1439-7617
• DOI: 10.1007/s10114-019-8294-8

This paper mainly focuses on the entire solutions of a nonlocal dispersal equation with asymmetric kernel and bistable nonlinearity. Compared with symmetric case, the asymmetry of the dispersal kernel function makes more diverse types of entire solutions since it can affect the sign of the wave speeds and the symmetry of the corresponding nonincreasing and nondecreasing traveling waves. We divide the bistable case into two monostable cases by restricting the range of the variable, and obtain some merging-front entire solutions which behave as the coupling of monostable and bistable waves. Before this, we characterize the classification of the wave speeds so that the entire solutions can be constructed more clearly. Especially, we investigate the influence of the asymmetry of the kernel on the minimal and maximal wave speeds.