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February 2017, 37(2): 879-903. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2017036

On eigenvalue problems arising from nonlocal diffusion models

Fang Li ^1, , Jerome Coville ^2, and Xuefeng Wang ^1,3,,

1.	Center for PDE, East China Normal University, 500 Dongchuan Road, Minhang 200241, Shanghai, China
2.	Biostatistique et Processus Spatiaux, INRA, 84000, Avignon, France
3.	Department of Mathematics, Southern University of Science and Technology, 1088 Xueyuan Road, Nanshan 518055, Shenzhen, China

FL is supported by NSF of China (No. 11431005), NSF of Shanghai (No. 16ZR1409600).JC is supported by the French ANR through the ANR JCJC project MODEVOL: ANR-13-JS01-0009 and the ANR project NONLOCAL: ANR-13-JS01-0009.XFW is supported by NSF of China (No. 11671190).

Received June 2015 Revised September 2015 Published November 2016

We aim at saying as much as possible about the spectra of three classes of linear diffusion operators involving nonlocal terms. In all but one cases, we characterize the minimum $λ_p$ of the real part of the spectrum in two max-min fashions, and prove that in most cases $λ_p$ is an eigenvalue with a corresponding positive eigenfunction, and is algebraically simple and isolated; we also prove that the maximum principle holds if and only if $λ_p>0$ (in most cases) or $≥ 0$ (in one case). We prove these results by an elementary method based on the strong maximum principle, rather than resorting to Krein-Rutman theory as did in the previous papers. In one case when it is impossible to characterize $λ_p$ in the max-min fashion, we supply a complete description of the whole spectrum.

Keywords: Principal eigenvalue, nonlocal operators, max-min characterization, maximum principle.

Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary:45C05, 45K05;Secondary:35P1.

Citation: Fang Li, Jerome Coville, Xuefeng Wang. On eigenvalue problems arising from nonlocal diffusion models. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - A, 2017, 37 (2) : 879-903. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2017036

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[3]	P. Bates and G. Zhao, Existence, uniqueness and stability of the stationary solution to a nonlocal evolution equation arising in population dispersal, J. Math. Anal. Appl., 332 (2007), 428-440. doi: 10.1016/j.jmaa.2006.09.007. Google Scholar
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[6]	H. Berestycki, L. Nirenberg and S. R. S. Varadhan, The principal eigenvalue and maximum principle for second-order elliptic operators in general domains, Comm. Pure Appl. Math., 47 (1994), 47-92. doi: 10.1002/cpa.3160470105. Google Scholar
[7]	J. Coville, On a simple criterion for the existence of a principal eigenfunction of some nonlocal operators, J. Differential Equations, 249 (2010), 2921-2953. doi: 10.1016/j.jde.2010.07.003. Google Scholar
[8]	J. Coville, Singular measure as principal eigenfunction of some nonlocal operators, Appl. Math. Lett., 26 (2013), 831-835. doi: 10.1016/j.aml.2013.03.005. Google Scholar
[9]	J. Coville, Nonlocal refuge model with a partial control, Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst., 35 (2015), 1421-1446. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2015.35.1421. Google Scholar
[10]	J. Coville, J. Davila and S. Martinez, Pulsating fronts for nonlocal dispersion and KPP nonlinearity, Ann. I. H. Poincare -AN, 30 (2013), 179-223. doi: 10.1016/j.anihpc.2012.07.005. Google Scholar
[11]	J. F. Crow and M. Kimura, An Introduction to Population Genetics Theory, Burgess Pub. Co. , 1970.Google Scholar
[12]	L. C. Evans, Partial Differential Equations, Graduate Studies in Mathematics, 19, Providence, 1998.Google Scholar
[13]	V. Huston, S. Martinez, K. Mischaikow and G. T. Vickers, The evolution of dispersal, J. Math. Biol., 47 (2003), 483-517. doi: 10.1007/s00285-003-0210-1. Google Scholar
[14]	T. Kato, Perturbation Theory for Linear Operators, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1995.
[15]	F. Li, K. Nakashima and W.-M. Ni, Stability from the point of view of diffusion, relaxation and spatial inhomogeneity, Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst., 20 (2008), 259-274. Google Scholar
[16]	F. Li, Y. Lou and Y. Wang, Global dynamics of a competition model with non-local dispersal Ⅰ: the shadow system, J. Math. Anal. Appl., 412 (2014), 485-497. doi: 10.1016/j.jmaa.2013.10.071. Google Scholar
[17]	H. G. Othmer, S. R. Dunbar and W. Alt, Models of dispersal in biological systems, J. Math. Biol., 26 (1988), 263-298. doi: 10.1007/BF00277392. Google Scholar
[18]	W. Shen and X. Xie, On principal spectrum points/principal eigenvalues of nonlocal dispersal operators and applications, Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst., 35 (2015), 1665-1696. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2015.35.1665. Google Scholar
[19]	D. B. Smith, A sufficient condition for the existence of a principal eigenvalue for nonlocal diffusion equations with applications, J. Math. Anal. Appl., 418 (2014), 766-774. doi: 10.1016/j.jmaa.2014.04.004. Google Scholar
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[21]	J.-W. Sun, W.-T. Li and Z.-C. Wang, A nonlocal dispersal logistic equation with spatial degeneracy, Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst., 35 (2015), 3217-3238. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2015.35.3217. Google Scholar
[22]	J.-W. Sun, F.-Y. Yang and W.-T. Li, A nonlocal dispersal equation arising from a selection-migration model in genetics, J. Differential Equations, 257 (2014), 1372-1402. doi: 10.1016/j.jde.2014.05.005. Google Scholar
[23]	Y. Yamada, On logistic diffusion equations with nonlocal interaction terms, Nonlinear Anal., 118 (2015), 51-62. doi: 10.1016/j.na.2015.01.016. Google Scholar

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