Classification of the spreading behaviors of a two-species diffusion-competition system with free boundaries

Title
Classification of the spreading behaviors of a two-species diffusion-competition system with free boundaries
Publication Date
2022-02-03
Author(s)
Du, Yihong
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1235-0636
Email: ydu@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:ydu
Wu, Chang-Hong
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Springer
Place of publication
Germany
DOI
10.1007/s00526-021-02170-8
UNE publication id
une:1959.11/56207
Abstract

In this paper, we revisit the spreading behavior of two invasive species modelled by a diffusion-competition system with two free boundaries in a radially symmetric setting, where the reaction terms depict a weak-strong competition scenario. Our previous work (Du and Wu in Cal Var PDE 57:52, 2018) proves that from certain initial states, the two species develop into a "chase-and-run coexistence" state, namely the front of the weak species v propagates at a fast speed and that of the strong species u propagates at a slow speed, with their population masses largely segregated. Subsequent numerical simulations in Khan et al. (J Math Biol 83:23, 2021) suggest that for all possible initial states, only four different types of long-time dynamical behaviours can be observed: (1) chase-and-run coexistence, (2) vanishing of u with v spreading successfully, (3) vanishing of v with u spreading successfully, and (4) vanishing of both species. In this paper, we rigorously prove that, as the initial states vary, there are exactly five types of long-time dynamical behaviors: apart from the four mentioned above, there exists a fifth case, where both species spread successfully and their spreading fronts are kept within a finite distance to each other all the time. We conjecture that this new case can happen only when a parameter takes an exceptional value, which is why it has eluded the numerical observations of Khan et al. (J Math Biol 83:23, 2021) .

Link
Citation
Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations, 61(2), p. 1-34
ISSN
1432-0835
0944-2669
Start page
1
End page
34

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