Special Session 25: 

On the unboundedness of the ratio of species and resources for a diffusive logistic equation in a ball

Kousuke Kuto
Waseda University
Japan
Co-Author(s):    Jumpei Inoue
Abstract:
This talk is concerned with a class of stationary logistic equations for which Ni proposed an optimization problem to consider the supremum of the ratio of the L1 norms of species and resource by varying the diffusion rates and the profiles of resource, and moreover, he gave a conjecture that the supremum is 3 in a case when the habitat is a one-dimensional interval. Recently, Bai, He and Li found a sequence of diffusion rates and resource functions to make the corresponding ratios tend to the supremum 3 from below. In this talk, we first show the asymptotic profile of species corresponding to the maximizing sequence found by Bai et al. Next, we introduce a result that the supremum is infinity in a case when the habitat is a multi-dimensional ball.