Special Session 6: Propagation dynamics of PDEs: recent progress and trends

Spreading dynamics for the Lotka-Volterra system with general initial supports: the strong competition
Hongjun Guo
Tongji University
Peoples Rep of China
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Abstract:
This talk concerns the spreading dynamics of a high-dimensional strong competition Lotka-Volterra system where two species initially occupy disjoint measurable (possibly unbounded) subsets in R^N, which are called initial support. Recently, Hamel and Rossi introduced some new geometric notions, such as bounded or unbounded directions and positive-distance interior, for single-species equations with general initial supports. Under these notions and appropriate assumptions, we characterize directional spreading behavior for the two-species system: precise spreading speeds and sets for both species are derived.