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
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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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description 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.
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spelling doaj-art-b107fdd2652f4ea6a2c718bd7586c6002025-02-03T01:27:54ZengWileyJournal of Function Spaces and Applications0972-68021758-49652012-01-01201210.1155/2012/679465679465A Weak Comparison Principle for Reaction-Diffusion SystemsJosé Valero0Centro de Investigación Operativa, Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche, Avenida Universidad s/n, 03202 Elche, SpainWe 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.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/679465
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