Novel stability results for traveling wavefronts in an age-structured reaction-diffusion equation.

Math Biosci Eng

Department of Mathematics, Champlain College Saint-Lambert, Saint-Lambert, Quebec, J4P 3P2, Canada.

Published: October 2009


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For a time-delayed reaction-diffusion equation of age-structured single species population, the linear and nonlinear stability of the traveling wavefronts were proved by Gourley [4] and Li-Mei-Wong [8] respectively. The stability results, however, assume the delay-time is sufficiently small. We now prove that the wavefronts remain stable even when the delay-time is arbitrarily large. This essentially improves the previous stability results obtained in [4, 8]. Finally, we point out that this novel stability can be applied to the age-structured reaction-diffusion equation with a more general maturation rate.

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