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1Department of Mathematics, N.T.I.S. (Center of New Technologies for Information Society), University of West Bohemia, P.O. Box 314, 306 14, Plzeň, Czech Republic.
Abstract:
We consider a one-dimensional population genetics model for the advance of an advantageous gene. The model is described by the semilinear Fisher equation with unbalanced bistable non-Lipschitzian nonlinearity f(u). The "nonsmoothness" of f allows for the appearance of travelling waves with a new, more realistic profile. We study existence, uniqueness, and long-time asymptotic behavior of the solutions u(x, t), [Formula: see text]. We prove also the existence and uniqueness (up to a spatial shift) of a travelling wave U. Our main result is the uniform convergence (for [Formula: see text]) of every solution u(x, t) of the Cauchy problem to a single travelling wave [Formula: see text] as [Formula: see text]. The speed c and the travelling wave U are determined uniquely by f, whereas the shift [Formula: see text] is determined by the initial data.
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