Asymptotic speeds of spreading for the Lotka-Volterra system with strong competition in $\mathbb{R}^N$

Abstract

This paper is concerned with the asymptotic spreading behavior of solutions of the Lotka-Volterra system with strong competition in $\mathbb{R}^{N}$. Two types of initial conditions are proposed: (C1) two species initially occupy bounded domains; (C2) two species initially occupy the whole space separately. The spreading dynamics for (C1) (C2) is strongly depending on the speeds of traveling fronts of the scalar equations with no competition and the system. We give the asymptotic speeds of spreading for both (C1) (C2).