Non-Monotone Traveling Waves of the Weak Competition Lotka-Volterra System

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Main Authors: Chen, Chiun-Chuan, Hsiao, Ting-Yang, Wang, Shun-Chieh
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author Chen, Chiun-Chuan
Hsiao, Ting-Yang
Wang, Shun-Chieh
author_facet Chen, Chiun-Chuan
Hsiao, Ting-Yang
Wang, Shun-Chieh
contents We investigate traveling wave solutions in the two-species reaction-diffusion Lotka-Volterra competition system under weak competition. For the strict weak competition regime $(b<a<1/c,\,d>0)$, we construct refined upper and lower solutions combined with the Schauder fixed point theorem to establish the existence of traveling waves for all wave speeds $s\geq s^*:=\max\{2,2\sqrt{ad}\}$, and provide verifiable sufficient conditions for the emergence of non-monotone waves. Such conditions for non-monotonic waves have not been explicitly addressed in previous studies. It is interesting to point out that our result for non-monotone waves also hold for the critical speed case $s=s^*$. In addition, in the critical weak competition case $(b<a=1/c,\,d>0)$, we rigorously prove, for the first time, the existence of front-pulse traveling waves.
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spellingShingle Non-Monotone Traveling Waves of the Weak Competition Lotka-Volterra System
Chen, Chiun-Chuan
Hsiao, Ting-Yang
Wang, Shun-Chieh
Analysis of PDEs
Dynamical Systems
Populations and Evolution
We investigate traveling wave solutions in the two-species reaction-diffusion Lotka-Volterra competition system under weak competition. For the strict weak competition regime $(b<a<1/c,\,d>0)$, we construct refined upper and lower solutions combined with the Schauder fixed point theorem to establish the existence of traveling waves for all wave speeds $s\geq s^*:=\max\{2,2\sqrt{ad}\}$, and provide verifiable sufficient conditions for the emergence of non-monotone waves. Such conditions for non-monotonic waves have not been explicitly addressed in previous studies. It is interesting to point out that our result for non-monotone waves also hold for the critical speed case $s=s^*$. In addition, in the critical weak competition case $(b<a=1/c,\,d>0)$, we rigorously prove, for the first time, the existence of front-pulse traveling waves.
title Non-Monotone Traveling Waves of the Weak Competition Lotka-Volterra System
topic Analysis of PDEs
Dynamical Systems
Populations and Evolution
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04501