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| author | He, Xiaoqing Liu, Quan-Xing Ye, Dong |
| author_facet | He, Xiaoqing Liu, Quan-Xing Ye, Dong |
| contents | Mass-conserving reaction-diffusion (MCRD) systems are widely used to model phase separation and pattern formation in cell polarity, biomolecular condensates, and ecological systems. Numerical simulations and formal asymptotic analysis suggest that such models can support stationary patterns with sharp internal interfaces. In this work, we establish for a general class of bistable MCRD systems the existence of nonconstant radially symmetric stationary solutions with a single internal transition layer on an $N$-dimensional ball, for general spatial dimension $N$. Our approach incorporates the global mass constraint directly into a refined matched-asymptotic framework complemented by a uniform spectral/linear analysis. Beyond mere existence, our framework yields arbitrarily high-order asymptotic approximations of the constructed solutions together with quantitative uniform error estimates, which provides a quantitative higher-dimensional theory of transition-layer patterns in MCRD systems and a rigorous justification for their use in modeling phase separation and pattern formation in biological and ecological settings. |
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| publishDate | 2026 |
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| spellingShingle | Radially symmetric transition-layer solutions in mass-conserving reaction-diffusion systems with bistable nonlinearity He, Xiaoqing Liu, Quan-Xing Ye, Dong Analysis of PDEs Dynamical Systems 35J57, 35B36, 35B30, 92C15 Mass-conserving reaction-diffusion (MCRD) systems are widely used to model phase separation and pattern formation in cell polarity, biomolecular condensates, and ecological systems. Numerical simulations and formal asymptotic analysis suggest that such models can support stationary patterns with sharp internal interfaces. In this work, we establish for a general class of bistable MCRD systems the existence of nonconstant radially symmetric stationary solutions with a single internal transition layer on an $N$-dimensional ball, for general spatial dimension $N$. Our approach incorporates the global mass constraint directly into a refined matched-asymptotic framework complemented by a uniform spectral/linear analysis. Beyond mere existence, our framework yields arbitrarily high-order asymptotic approximations of the constructed solutions together with quantitative uniform error estimates, which provides a quantitative higher-dimensional theory of transition-layer patterns in MCRD systems and a rigorous justification for their use in modeling phase separation and pattern formation in biological and ecological settings. |
| title | Radially symmetric transition-layer solutions in mass-conserving reaction-diffusion systems with bistable nonlinearity |
| topic | Analysis of PDEs Dynamical Systems 35J57, 35B36, 35B30, 92C15 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.06779 |