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# Traveling wave solutions for Lotka-Volterra system re-visited

• Using a new method of monotone iteration of a pair of smooth lower- and upper-solutions, the traveling wave solutions of the classical Lotka-Volterra system are shown to exist for a family of wave speeds. Such constructed upper and lower solution pair enables us to derive the explicit value of the minimal (critical) wave speed as well as the asymptotic decay/growth rates of the wave solutions at infinities. Furthermore, the traveling wave corresponding to each wave speed is unique up to a translation of the origin. The stability of the traveling wave solutions with non-critical wave speed is also studied by spectral analysis of a linearized operator in exponentially weighted Banach spaces.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary 35B35, Secondary 91B18, 35K57, 35B40.

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