Special Session 14: New perspectives in the qualitative study of nonlinear differential equations and dynamical systems

Which diffusion strategy is best for a prey and a predator moving with Fractional Laplacians?
Elisa Affili
Universite de Rouen Normandie
France
Co-Author(s):    Serena Dipierro, Giovanni Giacomin, Enrico Valdinoci
Abstract:
We consider a predator and a prey moving with Fractional Laplacians, letting the predator and the prey free to choose the exponent characterising the distribution of the jump lengths. Which exponent should the predator use to maximise its chance to catch the prey? And which one should the prey select to minimise the possibility of meeting the predator? In this talk, we study a funtional that describes the chance of meeting taking into account both strategies. We focus in particular on the case of a large initial distance and we find ranges for the parameter of fractional diffusion corresponding to the maximum (for the predator) and the minimum (for the prey) in dependence of the choice of the other species. These findings rely on very fine estimates of the fundamental solution of the fractional heat equation.