Method of monotone solutions for reaction-diffusion equations

V. Volpert ; V. Vougalter

Contemporary Mathematics. Fundamental Directions, Differential and functional differential equations, Tome 63 (2017) no. 3, pp. 437-454.

Résumé

Existence of solutions of reaction-diffusion systems of equations in unbounded domains is studied by the Leray–Schauder (LS) method based on the topological degree for elliptic operators in unbounded domains and on a priori estimates of solutions in weighted spaces. We identify some reactiondiffusion systems for which there exist two subclasses of solutions separated in the function space, monotone and non-monotone solutions. A priori estimates and existence of solutions are obtained for monotone solutions allowing to prove their existence by the LS method. Various applications of this method are given.

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