Spatio-temporal dynamics for non-monotone semiflows with limiting systems having spreading speeds

Abstract

This paper is devoted to the study of propagation dynamics for a large class of non-monotone evolution systems. In two directions of the spatial variable, such a system has two limiting systems admitting the spatial translation invariance. Under the assumption that each of these two limiting systems has both leftward and rightward spreading speeds, we establish the spreading properties of solutions and the existence of nontrivial fixed points, steady states, traveling waves for the original systems. We also apply the developed theory to a time-delayed reaction-diffusion equation with a shifting habitat and a class of asymptotically homogeneous reaction-diffusion systems.