Critical traveling waves in a diffusive disease model

Abstract

In this paper, the existence of a non-trivial, positive and bounded critical traveling wave solution of a diffusive disease model, whose reaction system has infinity many equilibria, is obtained for the first time. This gives an affirmative answer to an open problem left in [X. Wang, H. Wang, J. Wu, Traveling waves of diffusive predator-prey systems: disease outbreak propagation, Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst. Ser. A 32 (2012) 3303-3324]. Our result shows that the critical traveling wave in this model is a mixed of front and pulse type.