Periodic traveling waves in an integro-difference equation with non-monotonic growth and strong Allee effect
We derive sufficient conditions for the existence of a periodic traveling wave solution to an integro-difference equation with a piecewise constant growth function exhibiting a stable period- <inline-formula content-type="math/mathml"> <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="2"> <mml:semantics> <mml:mn>2</mml:mn> <mml:annotation encoding="application/x-tex">2</mml:annotation> </mml:semantics> </mml:math> </inline-formula> cycle and strong Allee effect. The mean traveling wave speed is shown to be the asymptotic spreading speed of solutions with compactly supported initial data under appropriate conditions. We then conduct case studies for the Laplace kernel and uniform kernel.
Authors
- Bingtuan Li (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1444-6201)
- Michael Nestor
Publication Details
- Journal
- Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society
- Published
- 2026-07-24
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1090/proc/17052
- Primary Topic
- Mathematical and Theoretical Epidemiology and Ecology Models
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- National Science Foundation