A logistic equation with nonlocal interactions

Luis Caffarelli; Serena Dipierro; Enrico Valdinoci

doi:10.3934/krm.2017006

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2017, Volume 10, Issue 1: 141-170. Doi: 10.3934/krm.2017006

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A logistic equation with nonlocal interactions

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The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Mathematics and Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, 2515 Speedway, Austin, TX 78751, USA
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School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne, 813 Swanston St, Parkville VIC 3010, Australia
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School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, Perth, WA 6009, Australia
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Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, Hausvogteiplatz 5/7,10117 Berlin, Germany
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CNR, Istituto di Matematica Applicata e Tecnologie Informatiche, via Ferrata 1,27100 Pavia, Italy
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Dipartimento di Matematica, Università degli studi di Milano, Via Saldini 50,20133 Milan, Italy

*Corresponding author: Luis Caffarelli
*Corresponding author: Luis Caffarelli

Received: February 2016

Revised: May 2016

Published: September 2017

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We consider here a logistic equation, modeling processes of nonlocal character both in the diffusion and proliferation terms.

More precisely, for populations that propagate according to a Lévy process and can reach resources in a neighborhood of their position, we compare (and find explicit threshold for survival) the local and nonlocal case.

As ambient space, we can consider:
  $ \bullet $bounded domains,
  $ \bullet $periodic environments,
  $ \bullet $transition problems, where the environment consists of a block of infinitesimal diffusion and an adjacent nonlocal one.

In each of these cases, we analyze the existence/nonexistence of solutions in terms of the spectral properties of the domain. In particular, we give a detailed description of the fact that nonlocal populations may better adapt to sparse resources and small environments.

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Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35Q92, 46N60, 35R11; Secondary: 60G22.

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