A Weak Comparison Principle for Reaction-Diffusion Systems

We prove a weak comparison principle for a reaction-diffusion system without uniqueness of solutions. We apply the abstract results to the Lotka-Volterra system with diffusion, a generalized logistic equation, and to a model of fractional-order chemical autocatalysis with decay. Moreover, in the cas...

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Main Author: José Valero
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2012-01-01
Series:Journal of Function Spaces and Applications
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/679465
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Summary:We prove a weak comparison principle for a reaction-diffusion system without uniqueness of solutions. We apply the abstract results to the Lotka-Volterra system with diffusion, a generalized logistic equation, and to a model of fractional-order chemical autocatalysis with decay. Moreover, in the case of the Lotka-Volterra system a weak maximum principle is given, and a suitable estimate in the space of essentially bounded functions L∞ is proved for at least one solution of the problem.
ISSN:0972-6802
1758-4965