asymptotic pattern for a partial neutral functional differential equation abstract in the present article the asymptotic speed of spread and traveling wavefronts of a partial neutral functional differential equation pnfde are investigated a variable transform yields to a partial retarded functional differential equation prfde with infinite number of constant delays the relation between the above pnfde and prfde is studied and an equivalence in a certain meaning of these two equations is verified using this equivalence we in fact obtain the existence and uniqueness of solution for the initial value problem of the pnfde we then consider the truncated system of the above prfde which is a partial retarded functional differential equation with finite number of constant delays we establish the existence of the traveling wave solution and the spreading speed for this truncated system a limit argument and the method of finite delay approximation are used to obtain the existence of the traveling wave solutions and the spreading speed for the prfde with infinite number of constant delays this leads to the existence of the traveling wave solution and the spreading speed for the considered pnfde by the above equivalence at last we confirm that the spreading speed is coincidental with the minimal wave speed for all equations an example is given to illustrate the application of our results

on the geometry of wave solutions of a delayed reaction diffusion equation abstract the aim of this paper is to study the existence and the geometry of positive bounded wave solutions to a non local delayed reaction diffusion equation of the monostable type

stability of strong travelling waves for a non local time delayed reaction diffusion equation the paper is concerned with a non local time delayed reaction diffusion equation we prove the time asymptotic stability of a travelling wavefront without a smallness assumption on its wavelength i e the so called strong wavefront by means of the technical weighted energy method when the initial perturbation around the wave is small the exponential convergent rate is also given selection of a suitable weight plays a key role in the proof

traveling waves solutions for partial neutral differential equations abstract using monotonicity techniques and the schauder fixed point theorem we study the existence of traveling waves for neutral partial differential equations in the last section we illustrate our results on the neutral versions of the kpp fisher and the kobayashi equations

on spectral clustering of hss preconditioner for generalized saddle point matrices abstract for the nonsingular generalized saddle point matrix of a hermitian positive definite or semidefinite leading block we rigorously analyze clustering property for the eigenvalues of the corresponding preconditioned matrix with respect to the hermitian and skew hermitian splitting preconditioner the result shows that these eigenvalues are clustered around 0 2 and a few points located on the unit circle centered at 1 as the iteration parameter is close to 0

on inverse spectral theory for self adjoint extensions mixed types of spectra abstract lethbe a symmetric operator in a separable hilbert space h suppose thathhas some gapj we shall investigate the question about what spectral properties the self adjoint extensions ofhcan have inside the gapjand provide methods on how to construct self adjoint extensions ofhwith prescribed spectral properties insidej under some weak assumptions about the operatorhwhich are satisfied e g provided the deficiency indices ofhare infinite and the operator h 1is compact for one regular point ofh we shall show that for every auxiliary self adjoint operatorm in the hilbert space h and every open subsetj0of the gapjofhthere exists a self adjoint extensionhofhsuch that insidejthe self adjoint extensionhofhhas the same absolutely continuous and the same point spectrum as the given operatorm and the singular continuous spectrum ofhinjequals the closure ofj0inj moreover we shall present a method of how to construct such a self adjoint extensionh via our methods it is possible to construct new kinds of self adjoint realizations of the laplacian on a bounded domain in r d d 1 with spectral properties very different from the spectral properties of the self adjoint realizations known before mathematics subject classification 1991 47a10 47a60 47b25 47e05 47f05

travelling wavefronts in the diffusive single species model with allee effect and distributed delay in this paper we consider the diffusive single species model with allee effect and distributed delay time special attention is paid to the existence of travelling wavefront solutions first we shall show that such fronts exist when the convolution kernel assumes the strong generic delay kernel and the delay is sufficiently small then in the non local spatial terms which account for the drift of individuals to their present position from their possible positions at previous times we shall show that such fronts still exist for the weak generic delay kernel and small delay the approach used in this paper is the geometric singular perturbation theory

on travelling wavefronts of nicholson s blowflies equation with diffusion this paper is devoted to the study of nicholson s blowflies equation with diffusion a kind of time delayed reaction diffusion for any travelling wavefront with speed c c c is the minimum wave speed we prove that the wavefront is time asymptotically stable when the delay time is sufficiently small and the initial perturbation around the wavefront decays to zero exponentially in space as x but it can be large in other locations the result develops and improves the previous wave stability obtained by mei et al in 2004 the new approach developed in this paper is the comparison principle combined with the technical weighted energy method numerical simulations are also carried out to confirm our theoretical results

wave front solutions of a diffusive delay model for populations of daphnia magna abstract in this paper we consider a diffusional food limited population model incorporating a discrete time delay for the case when the delay is small we show that monotone travelling front solutions exist connecting the two uniform steady states of the model the effect of a larger delay is studied numerically suggesting that in this case travelling fronts still exist but lose their monotonicity

existence of traveling wave solutions for a reaction diffusion equation with distributed delays abstract in this paper we consider a reaction diffusion equation with distributed delays special attention is paid to the existence of traveling wave solutions for special delay kernels using the linear chain trick and the geometric singular perturbation theory we investigate a natural connection between the existence of traveling wave solutions for the reaction diffusion equation with distributed delays and the existence of traveling wave solutions for the corresponding undelayed reaction diffusion equation we show that if the corresponding undelayed reaction diffusion equation has a traveling wave solution then for any sufficiently small delay the delayed reaction diffusion equation also has a traveling wave solution

global stability of wavefronts with minimal speeds for nonlocal dispersal equations with degenerate nonlinearity abstract this paper is concerned with the global stability of wavefronts with minimal speeds for degenerate nonlocal dispersal equations by the method of super and subsolutions and a squeezing technique the wavefront with minimal speed is proved to be globally asymptotically stable with phase shift

a relaxed deteriorated pss preconditioner for nonsymmetric saddle point problems from the steady navier stokes equation for nonsymmetric saddle point problems arising from the steady navier stokes equations pan ng and bai presented a deteriorated positive definite and skew hermitian splitting dpss preconditioner pan et al 2006 to accelerate the convergence rates of the krylov subspace iteration methods such as gmres in this paper the unconditional convergence property of the dpss iteration method is proved and a relaxed dpss rdpss preconditioner is proposed the rdpss preconditioner is much closer to the coefficient matrix than the dpss preconditioner in certain norm which straightforwardly results in an rdpss iteration method the convergence conditions of the rdpss iteration are analyzed and the optimal parameter which minimizes the spectral radius of the rdpss iteration matrix is derived using the rdpss preconditioner to accelerate some krylov subspace methods like gmres is also studied the eigenproperty of the preconditioned matrix is described and an upper bound of the degree of the minimal polynomial of the preconditioned matrix is obtained finally numerical experiments of a model navier stokes equation are presented to illustrate the efficiency of the rdpss preconditioner

travelling wave and global attractivity in a competition diffusion system with nonlocal delays in this paper we are concerned with a two competition model described by a reaction diffusion system with nonlocal delays which account for the drift of individuals to their present position from their possible positions at previous times by using the iterative technique recently developed in wang et al 2006 14 the sufficient conditions are established for the existence of travelling wave solutions connecting the semi trivial steady state to the coexistence steady state of the considered system when the domain is bounded we investigate the global attractivity of the coexistence steady state of the system under homogeneous neumann boundary conditions as well the approach used is the upper lower solutions and monotone iteration technique

entire solutions in bistable reaction diffusion equations with nonlocal delayed nonlinearity this paper is concerned with entire solutions for bistable reaction diffusion equations with nonlocal delay in one dimensional spatial domain here the entire solutions are defined in the whole space and for all time t r assuming that the equation has an increasing traveling wave solution with nonzero wave speed and using the comparison argument we prove the existence of entire solutions which behave as two traveling wave solutions coming from both ends of the x axis and annihilating at a finite time furthermore we show that such an entire solution is unique up to space time translations and is liapunov stable a key idea is to characterize the asymptotic behavior of the solutions as t in terms of appropriate subsolutions and supersolutions in order to illustrate our main results two models of reaction diffusion equations with nonlocal delay arising from mathematical biology are considered

natural preconditioning and iterative methods for saddle point systems the solution of quadratic or locally quadratic extremum problems subject to linear ized constraints gives rise to linear systems in saddle point form this is true whether in the continuous or the discrete setting so saddle point systems arising from the discretization of partial differential equation problems such as those describing electromagnetic problems or incompressible flow lead to equations with this structure as do for example interior point methods and the sequential quadratic programming approach to nonlinear optimization this survey concerns iterative solution methods for these problems and in particular shows how the problem formulation leads to natural preconditioners which guarantee a fast rate of convergence of the relevant iterative methods these preconditioners are related to the original extremum problem and their effectiveness in terms of rapidity of convergence is established here via a proof of general bounds on the eigenvalues of the preconditioned saddle point matri

a note on pss preconditioners for generalized saddle point problems abstract in this note the positive semidefinite and skew hermitian splitting pss preconditioners introduced by pan et al 2006 10 are further extended to the generalized saddle point problems with nonzero 2 2 blocks the model problem of oseen equations is used to illustrate the presented spectral properties as well as the performance of the pss preconditioner

block triangular and skew hermitian splitting methods for positive definite linear systems by further generalizing the concept of hermitian or normal and skew hermitian splitting for a non hermitian and positive definite matrix we introduce a new splitting called positive definite and skew hermitian splitting pss and then establish a class of pss methods similar to the hermitian or normal and skew hermitian splitting hss or nss method for iteratively solving the positive definite systems of linear equations theoretical analysis shows that the pss method converges unconditionally to the exact solution of the linear system with the upper bound of its convergence factor dependent only on the spectrum of the positive definite splitting matrix and independent of the spectrum of the skew hermitian splitting matrix as well as the eigenvectors of all matrices involved when we specialize the pss to block triangular or triangular and skew hermitian splitting btss or tss the pss method naturally leads to a btss or tss iteration method which may be more practical and efficient than the hss and nss iteration methods applications of the btss method to the linear systems of block two by two structures are discussed in detail numerical experiments further show the effectiveness of our new methods

spreading speed and wavefronts for parabolic functional differential equations with spatio temporal delays the existence of traveling wavefronts and the spreading speed for a kind of general reaction diffusion system with spatio temporal delays are investigated we obtain the conclusion that there is c 0 being the asymptotic speed of spread and the minimal speed for the system some more delicate analysis techniques have been developed to make the forms of the kernel function g t x and the function f more flexible in our paper a pair of super solution and sub solution have been constructed in order that the existence of traveling wavefronts can be guaranteed there is a biological model as an example in this article which is coincident with this system

traveling wavefronts for a time delayed non newtonian filtration equation abstract this paper is concerned with traveling wavefronts for the evolutionary p laplacian with time delay we first establish some necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of monotone nondecreasing and nonincreasing traveling wavefronts which correspond to definite wave speeds c 1 and c 2 respectively moreover special attention is also paid to the asymptotic behavior of traveling fronts connecting two uniform steady states

eigenvalue estimates for saddle point matrices of hermitian and indefinite leading blocks we study the eigenvalue bounds for the nonsingular saddle point matrices of hermitian and indefinite 1 1 and 2 2 blocks without imposing the restrictions that the 1 1 blocks are positive definite on the kernels of the 2 1 blocks

traveling waves for nonlinear cellular neural networks with distributed delays abstract in this paper we will establish the existence and nonexistence of traveling waves for nonlinear cellular neural networks with finite or infinite distributed delays the dynamics of each given cell depends on itself and its nearest m left or l right neighborhood cells where delays exist in self feedback and left or right neighborhood interactions our approach is to use schauder s fixed point theorem coupled with upper and lower solutions of the integral equation in a suitable banach space further we obtain the exponential asymptotic behavior in the negative infinity and the existence of traveling waves for the minimal wave speed by the limiting argument our results improve and cover some previous works

travelling waves for a biological reaction diffusion model with spatio temporal delay in this paper we consider the reaction diffusion equations with spatio temporal delay which models the microbial growth in a flow reactor nonlocal spatial term a weighted average in space arises when the individuals have not necessarily been at the same point in space at previous time by employing linear chain technique geometric singular perturbation and the center manifold theorem we prove that the steady travelling wave does not only persist but also it looks qualitatively the same as it do with no delay at all under the introduction of delays at least for small delay

travelling waves for a non monotone bistable equation with delay existence and oscillations we consider a bistable 0 theta 1 being the three constant steady states delayed reaction diffusion equation which serves as a model in population dynamics the problem does not admit any comparison principle this prevents the use of classical technics and as a consequence it is far from obvious to understand the behaviour of a possible travelling wave in infty combining refined it a priori estimates and a leray schauder topological degree argument we construct a travelling wave connecting 0 in infty to lq lq something which is strictly above the unstable equilibrium theta in infty furthemore we present situations additional bound on the nonlinearity or small delay where the wave converges to 1 in infty whereas the wave is shown to oscillate around 1 in infty when typically the delay is large

on the existence of traveling waves for delayed reaction diffusion equations abstract we study the existence of traveling wave solutions for reaction diffusion equations with nonlocal delay where reaction terms are not necessarily monotone the existence of traveling wave solutions for reaction diffusion equations with nonlocal delays is obtained by combining upper and lower solutions for associated integral equations and the schauder fixed point theorem the smoothness of upper and lower solutions is not required in this paper

stability analysis of a general discrete time population model involving delay and allee effects abstract in this paper we investigate stability conditions of equilibrium points of a general delay difference population model with and without allee effects which occur at low population density the analysis demonstrates that allee effects have both stabilizing and destabilizing effects on population dynamics including time delay

nonlinear stability of traveling wavefronts for competitive cooperative lotka volterra systems of three species abstract this paper is concerned with nonlinear stability of traveling wavefronts for competitive cooperative lotka volterra systems of three species it is proved that all traveling wavefronts with speed c c are exponentially stable in l space by the weighted energy method and comparison principle moreover the time decay rates are obtained by weighted energy estimates

a modified dimensional split preconditioner for generalized saddle point problems abstract for large and sparse saddle point linear systems arising from 2d linearized navier stokes equations benzi and guo recently studied a dimensional split ds preconditioner appl numer math 61 2011 66 76 by further applying it to generalized saddle point problems in this paper we present a modified dimensional split mds preconditioner this new preconditioner is based on a splitting of the generalized saddle point matrix resulting in an unconditional convergent fixed point iteration the basic iteration is accelerated by a krylov subspace method like restarted gmres the implementation of the mds preconditioner is discussed and a similar case is also analyzed finally numerical experiments of a model navier stokes problem are presented to illustrate the effectiveness of the mds preconditioner

pure point spectrum under 1 parameter perturbations and instability of anderson localization we consider a selfadjoint operator a and a selfadjoint rank one projection p onto a vector which is cyclic fora we study the set of all eigenvalues of the operatora t a tp t that belong to its essential spectrum which does not depend on the parametert we prove that this set is empty for a dense set of values oft then we apply this result or its idea to questions of anderson localization for 1 dimensional schrodinger operators discrete and continuous

asymptotic patterns of a structured population diffusing in a two dimensional strip abstract in this paper we derive a population model for the growth of a single species on a two dimensional strip with neumann and robin boundary conditions we show that the dynamics of the mature population is governed by a reaction diffusion equation with delayed global interaction using the theory of asymptotic speed of spread and monotone traveling waves for monotone semiflows we obtain the spreading speed c the non existence of traveling waves with wave speed 0 c c and the existence of monotone traveling waves connecting the two equilibria for c c

on the absolutely continuous spectrum of self adjoint extensions abstract let be any bounded domain in r d d 1 and j a gap of the minimal laplacian on we show that within j each kind of absolutely ontinuous spectrum can be generated by a self adjoint realization of the laplacian on and in addition give results on mixed types of spectra i e absolutely continuous singular continuous and point spectrum thus for bounded domains in r d with smooth boundary we give self adjoint realizations of the laplacian on with spectral properties very different from the properties of the self adjoint realizations studied before both in order to have very simple and clear concepts and in order to enlarge the possible range of applications we shall work within the much more general framework of self adjoint extensions of so called significantly deficient operators

asymptotic behavior and traveling wave solutions for parabolic functional differential equations on presente une generalisation de la theorie des equations kpp et de diffusion bistables non lineaires on montre que des solutions onde de propagation existent pour des equations fonctionnelles paraboliques non lineaires

the spectral properties of the hermitian and skew hermitian splitting preconditioner for generalized saddle point problems in this paper we consider the hermitian and skew hermitian splitting hss preconditioner for generalized saddle point problems with nonzero 2 2 blocks the spectral property of the preconditioned matrix is studied in detail under certain conditions all eigenvalues of the preconditioned matrix with the original system being non hermitian will form two tight clusters one is near 0 0 and the other is near 2 0 as the iteration parameter approaches to zero from above so do all eigenvalues of the preconditioned matrix with the original system being hermitian numerical experiments are given to demonstrate the results

inverse spectral theory for symmetric operators with several gaps scalar type weyl functions let s be the orthogonal sum of infinitely many pairwise unitarily equivalent symmetric operators with non zero deficiency indices let j be an open subset of r if there exists a self adjoint extension s0 of s such that j is contained in the resolvent set of s0 and the associated weyl function of the pair s s0 is monotone with respect to j then for any self adjoint operator r there exists a self adjoint extension s such that the spectral parts s j and rj are unitarily equivalent it is shown that for any extension s of s the absolutely continuous spectrum of s0 is contained in that one of s moreover for a wide class of extensions the absolutely continuous parts of s and s are even unitarily equivalent

existence and nonexistence of monotone traveling waves for the delayed fisher equation abstract in this paper a new approach based on a shooting method in a half line coupled with the technique of upper lower solution pair is used to study the existence and nonexistence of monotone waves for one form of the delayed fisher equation that does not have the quasimonotonicity property a necessary and sufficient condition is provided this new method can be extended to investigate many other nonlocal and non monotone delayed reaction diffusion equations

dynamics of a stochastic population model with allee effect and levy jumps abstract this article formulates and researches a single species stochastic population model with allee effect and levy jumps firstly it is shown that the model has a unique global positive solution then sufficient conditions for extinction and stochastic permanence are obtained finally the growth rate of the solution is estimated the results demonstrate that the levy jumps could change the properties of the model significantly several numerical figures are given to explain the theoretical results

delay induced traveling wave fronts in reaction diffusion equations of kpp fisher type this paper explores the impact of delay on the existence of traveling wave fronts in reaction diffusion equations of kpp fisher type for two such equations one being local and the other with nonlocal effect arising from the age structure of the population we show that delay can induce slow traveling wave fronts

travelling wave fronts in reaction diffusion systems with spatio temporal delays this paper deals with the existence of travelling wave fronts in reaction diffusion systems with spatio temporal delays our approach is to use monotone iterations and a nonstandard ordering for the set of profiles of the corresponding wave system new iterative techniques are established for a class of integral operators when the reaction term satisfies different monotonicity conditions following this the existence of travelling wave fronts for reaction diffusion systems with spatio temporal delays is established finally we apply the main results to a single species diffusive model with spatio temporal delay and obtain some existence criteria of travelling wave fronts by choosing different kernels

regularized dpss preconditioners for generalized saddle point linear systems abstract by introducing a regularization matrix and an additional iteration parameter a new class of regularized deteriorated positive definite and skew hermitian splitting rdpss preconditioners are proposed for generalized saddle point linear systems compared with the well known hermitian and skew hermitian splitting hss preconditioner and the regularized hss preconditioner bai 2019 studied recently the new rdpss preconditioners have much better computing efficiency especially when the 1 1 block matrix is non hermitian it is proved that the corresponding rdpss stationary iteration method is unconditionally convergent in addition clustering property of the eigenvalues of the rdpss preconditioned matrix is studied in detail two numerical experiments arising from the meshfree discretization of a static piezoelectric equation and the finite element discretization of the navier stokes equation show the effectiveness of the new proposed preconditioners

traveling wavefronts for delayed reaction diffusion systems via a fixed point theorem abstract by using schauder s fixed point theorem we prove some existence results for traveling wavefronts of reaction diffusion systems with quasimonotonicity reactions more precisely we reduce the existence of traveling wavefronts to the existence of an admissible pair of supersolution and subsolution which are easy to construct in practice finally to illustrate our main results we study the existence of traveling wavefronts for a delayed predator prey model with diffusion as well as the reaction diffusion system with the well known belousov zhabotinskii reaction and the obtained results improve the existing ones

persistence of wavefronts in delayed nonlocal reaction diffusion equations we develop a perturbation argument based on existing results on asymptotic autonomous systems and the fredholm alternative theory that yields the persistence of traveling wavefronts for reaction diffusion equations with nonlocal and delayed nonlinearities when the time lag is relatively small this persistence result holds when the nonlinearity of the corresponding ordinary reaction diffusion system is either monostable or bistable we then illustrate this general result using five different models from population biology epidemiology and bio reactors

convergence properties of preconditioned hermitian and skew hermitian splitting methods for non hermitian positive semidefinite matrices for the non hermitian and positive semidefinite systems of linear equations we derive necessary and sufficient conditions for guaranteeing the unconditional convergence of the preconditioned hermitian and skew hermitian splitting iteration methods we then apply these results to block tridiagonal linear systems in order to obtain convergence conditions for the corresponding block variants of the preconditioned hermitian and skew hermitian splitting iteration methods

on the semi convergence of regularized hss iteration methods for singular saddle point problems abstract recently bai and benzi proposed a class of regularized hermitian and skew hermitian splitting rhss iteration methods for solving the nonsingular saddle point problem in this paper we apply this method to solve the singular saddle point problem in the process of the semi convergence analysis we get that the rhss method and the hss method are unconditionally semi convergent which has improved the previous results then some spectral properties of the corresponding preconditioned matrices and a class of improved preconditioned matrices are analyzed finally some numerical experiments on linear systems arising from the discretization of the stokes equation are presented to illustrate the feasibility and effectiveness of this method and the corresponding preconditioners

traveling waves for the nonlocal diffusive single species model with allee effect abstract in this paper we study a nonlocal diffusive single species model with allee effect we prove that the model admits positive traveling wave solutions connecting the equilibrium 0 to some unknown positive steady state if and only if the wave speed c 2 r where r 0 is the intrinsic rate of increase of the species for the sufficient large wave speed c we show that the unknown steady state is the unique positive equilibrium for two types of convolution kernel functions we investigate the change of the wave profile as the non locality increases and illustrate that the unknown steady state may be a positive periodic solution

operators with singular continuous spectrum ii rank one operators for an operator a with cyclic vector we studya p wherep is the rank one projection onto multiples of if spec a anda has no a c spectrum we prove thata p has purely singular continuous spectrum on for a denseg of s

generalized resolvents and the boundary value problems for hermitian operators with gaps a hermitian operator a with gaps j j 1 j m is studied the self adjoint extensions which put exactly kj eigenvalues into each gap j j in particular for kj 0 1 j m the extensions preserving the gaps are described in terms of boundary conditions the generalized resolvents of the extensions with the indicated properties are described also a solvability criterion and description of all the solutions of the hamburger moment problem with supports in r j 1m j j are obtained in terms of the nevanlinna matrix

spreading speed and traveling waves for a multi type sis epidemic model abstract the theory of asymptotic speeds of spread and monotone traveling waves for monotone semiflows is applied to a multi type sis epidemic model to obtain the spreading speed c and the nonexistence of traveling waves with wave speed c c then the method of upper and lower solutions is used to establish the existence of monotone traveling waves connecting the disease free and endemic equilibria for c c this shows that the spreading speed coincides with the minimum wave speed for monotone traveling waves we also give an affirmative answer to an open problem presented by rass and radcliffe l rass j radcliffe spatial deterministic epidemics math surveys monogr 102 amer math soc providence ri 2003

a variant of the hss preconditioner for complex symmetric indefinite linear systems abstract using the equivalent block two by two real linear systems we establish a new variant of the hermitian and skew hermitian splitting hss preconditioner for a class of complex symmetric indefinite linear systems the new preconditioner is not only a better approximation to the block two by two real coefficient matrix than the well known hss preconditioner but also resulting in an unconditional convergent fixed point iteration the quasi optimal parameter which minimizes an upper bound of the spectral radius of the iteration matrix is analyzed eigen properties and an upper bound of the degree of the minimal polynomial of the preconditioned matrix are discussed finally two numerical examples are provided to show the efficiency of the new preconditioner

travelling waves for delayed reaction diffusion equations with global response we develop a new approach to obtain the existence of travelling wave solutions for reaction diffusion equations with delayed non local response the approach is based on an abstract formulation of the wave profile as a solution of an operational equation in a certain banach space coupled with an index formula of the associated fredholm operator and some careful estimation of the nonlinear perturbation the general result relates the existence of travelling wave solutions to the existence of heteroclinic connecting orbits of a corresponding functional differential equation and this result is illustrated by an application to a model describing the population growth when the species has two age classes and the diffusion of the individual during the maturation process leads to an interesting non local and delayed response for the matured population

some new estimates on the complex eigenvalues of the hss preconditioned matrix in this paper we derive some new bounds on the complex eigenvalues of the hermitian and skew hermitian splitting hss preconditioner for saddle point problems and improve those stated in previously published works

stability of traveling waves in a population dynamics model with spatio temporal delay abstract in this paper we are concerned with the stability of all traveling waves for a population dynamics model with spatio temporal delay by the weighted energy method combining comparison principle the global exponential stability of all traveling waves for the model is established even including the slower waves whose wave speed is close to the critical speed

structured preconditioners for nonsingular matrices of block two by two structures for the large sparse block two by two real nonsingular matrices we establish a general framework of practical and efficient structured preconditioners through matrix transformation and matrix approximations for the specific versions such as modified block jacobi type modified block gauss seidel type and modified block unsymmetric symmetric gauss seidel type preconditioners we precisely describe their concrete expressions and deliberately analyze eigenvalue distributions and positive definiteness of the preconditioned matrices also we show that when these structured preconditioners are employed to precondition the krylov subspace methods such as gmres and restarted gmres fast and effective iteration solvers can be obtained for the large sparse systems of linear equations with block two by two coefficient matrices in particular these structured preconditioners can lead to efficient and high quality preconditioning matrices for some typical matrices from the real world applications

new preconditioners for saddle point problems we present new preconditioners based on matrix splittings for the saddle point problems the spectral property of one of the preconditioned matrix is studied in detail numerical examples are used to illustrate the efficiency of the new preconditioners

traveling wave solutions in a delayed diffusive competition system abstract in this paper we first investigate the existence of traveling wave fronts in a delayed diffusive competition system by constructing a pair of upper and lower solutions then we consider the asymptotic behavior of traveling wave solutions at the minus plus infinity by means of the bilateral laplace transform finally the monotonicity and uniqueness up to the translation of traveling wave solutions are also obtained by the strong comparison principle and the sliding method

pyramidal traveling fronts in a nonlocal delayed diffusion equation abstract recently there have been great progresses on the study of nonplanar traveling wave solutions of reaction diffusion equations in this paper we study the pyramidal traveling fronts of nonlocal delayed diffusion equation in r n with n 2 by using the comparison principle and establishing super and subsolution since the effect of nonlocal delay we show that nonlocal delayed diffusion equation in n dimensional space has a pyramidal traveling front u t x v x x n s t toward x n axis for each s c 0 in particular two dimensional traveling curved front and three dimensional pyramidal fronts for nonlocal delayed diffusion equation in r 2 and r 3 are also established respectively moreover we also extend our results to generally nonlocal delayed reaction diffusion equation

two new variants of the hss preconditioner for regularized saddle point problems two new preconditioners which can be viewed as improved variants of the hermitian and skew hermitian splitting hss preconditioner are presented for regularized saddle point problems the unconditionally convergent properties of the corresponding iteration methods are deduced and the selection of optimal iteration parameters resulting in fast convergence for the two iteration methods are discussed moreover eigenvalue bounds of the preconditioned matrices and upper bounds of the degree of their minimal polynomials are obtained compared with the hss preconditioner they are much better approximations to the coefficient matrix of the saddle point problem and they have better convergence properties and spectrum distributions numerical experiments from the stokes problem are presented which illustrates the advantages of the two preconditioners over the hss preconditioner and some other preconditioners to accelerate the convergence rate of gmres

spreading speeds and traveling wavefronts for second order integrodifference equations this paper is concerned with the spreading speeds and traveling wavefronts for second order integrodifference equations by introducing an auxiliary integrodifference system the spreading speed is established for the integrodifference equation it is shown that the spreading speed coincides with the minimal wave speed for monotonic traveling wavefronts furthermore we prove that the traveling wavefronts are stable by applying the squeezing technique finally we analyze the different effects of the delay term appearing in the integrodifference equation from the viewpoint of ecology

spatial structures and periodic travelling waves in an integro differential reaction diffusion population model an integro differential reaction diffusion equation is proposed as a model for populations where local aggregation is advantageous but intraspecific competition increases as global populations increase it is claimed that this is inherently more realistic than the usual kind of reaction diffusion model for mobile populations three kinds of bifurcation from the uniform steady state solution are considered i to steady spatially periodic structures ii to periodic standing wave solutions and iii to periodic travelling wave solutions these correspond to aggregation and motion of populations

asymptotic stability of traveling wave fronts in nonlocal reaction diffusion equations with delay abstract this paper is concerned with the asymptotic stability of traveling wave fronts of a class of nonlocal reaction diffusion equations with delay under monostable assumption we prove that the traveling wave front is exponentially stable by means of the technical weighted energy method when the initial perturbation around the wave is suitable small in a weighted norm the exponential convergent rate is also obtained finally we apply our results to some population models and obtain some new results which recover complement and or improve a number of existing ones

analysis of a stochastic hybrid population model with allee effect abstract this research formulates and studies a stochastic population model with allee effect and markovian switching sufficient criteria for extinction stochastic permanence and the existence of a unique ergodic invariant measure of the model are established the result indicates that these long term behaviors of the model are intimately associated with the random perturbations

traveling wavefronts in diffusive and cooperative lotka volterra system with delays existence of traveling wave front solutions is established for diffusive and cooperative lotka volterra system with delays the result is an extension of an existing result for delayed logistic scaler equation to systems and is somewhat parallel to the existing result for diffusive and competitive lotka volterra systems without delay the approach used in this paper is the upper lower solution technique and the monotone iteration recently developed by wu and zou j dynam differential equations 13 2001 651 687 for delayed reaction diffusion systems without the so called quasimonotonicity 2002 elsevier science usa all rights reserved

traveling wave fronts for generalized fisher equations with spatio temporal delays we study the existence of traveling wave fronts for a reaction diffusion equation with spatio temporal delays and small parameters the equation reduces to a generalized fisher equation if small parameters are zero we present two results in the first one we deal with the equation with very general kernels and show the persistence of fisher wave fronts for all sufficiently small parameters in the second one we deal with some particular kernels with which the nonlocal equation can be reduced to a system of singularly perturbed odes and we are then able to apply the geometric singular perturbation theory and phase plane arguments to this system to show the existence of the minimal wave speed the existence of a continuum of wave fronts and the global uniqueness of the physical wave front with each wave speed

a phase plane discussion of convergence to travelling fronts for nonlinear diffusion the paper is concerned with the asymptotic behavior as t of solutions u x t of the equation u t u xx f left u right 0 x in left infty infty right in the case f 0 f 1 0 with f u non positive for u 0 sufficiently close to zero and f u non negative for u 1 sufficiently close to 1 this guarantees the uniqueness but not the existence of a travelling front solution u u x ct u 0 u and it is shown in essence that solutions with monotonic initial data converge to a translate of this travelling front if it exists and to a stacked combination of travelling fronts if it does not the approach is to use the monotonicity to take u and t as independent variables and p ux as the dependent variable and to apply ideas of sub and super solutions to the diffusion equation for p

existence and stability of traveling wave fronts in reaction advection diffusion equations with nonlocal delay this paper is concerned with the existence uniqueness and globally asymptotic stability of traveling wave fronts in the quasi monotone reaction advection diffusion equations with nonlocal delay under bistable assumption we construct various pairs of super and subsolutions and employ the comparison principle and the squeezing technique to prove that the equation has a unique nondecreasing traveling wave front up to translation which is monotonically increasing and globally asymptotically stable with phase shift the influence of advection on the propagation speed is also considered comparing with the previous results our results recovers and or improves a number of existing ones in particular these results can be applied to a reaction advection diffusion equation with nonlocal delayed effect and a diffusion population model with distributed maturation delay some new results are obtained

entire solutions in monostable reaction diffusion equations with delayed nonlinearity abstract entire solutions for monostable reaction diffusion equations with nonlocal delay in one dimensional spatial domain are considered a comparison argument is employed to prove the existence of entire solutions which behave as two traveling wave solutions coming from both directions some new entire solutions are also constructed by mixing traveling wave solutions with heteroclinic orbits of the spatially averaged ordinary differential equations and the existence of such a heteroclinic orbit is established using the monotone dynamical systems theory key techniques include the characterization of the asymptotic behaviors of solutions as t in term of appropriate subsolutions and supersolutions two models of reaction diffusion equations with nonlocal delay arising from mathematical biology are given to illustrate main results

traveling waves for the diffusive nicholson s blowflies equation we consider traveling wave front solutions for the diffusive nicholson s blowflies equation on the real line the existence of such solutions is proved using the technique developed by j wu and x zou j dyn differ equations 13 3 2001 some numerical simulation using the iteration formula of wu and zou 7 is also provided

bistable wavefronts in a diffusive and competitive lotka volterra type system with nonlocal delays abstract a diffusive lotka volterra type model with nonlocal delays for two competitive species is considered the existence of a traveling wavefront analogous to a bistable wavefront for a single species is proved by transforming the system with nonlocal delays to a four dimensional system without delay furthermore in order to prove the asymptotic stability up to translation of bistable wavefronts of the system the existence regularity and comparison theorem of solutions of the corresponding cauchy problem are first established for the systems on r by appealing to the theory of abstract functional differential equations the asymptotic stability up to translation of bistable wavefronts are then proved by spectral methods in particular we also prove that the spreading speed is unique by upper and lower solutions technique from the point of view of ecology our results indicate that the nonlocal delays appeared in the interaction terms are not sensitive to the invasion of species of spatial isolation

traveling wave solutions in n dimensional delayed reaction diffusion systems with mixed monotonicity this paper deals with the existence of traveling wave solutions for n components delayed reaction diffusion systems with mixed monotonicity based on a certain kind of mixed quasimonotonicity reaction terms of higher dimension we propose new conditions on the reaction terms and new definitions of upper and lower solutions by using schauder s fixed point theorem and a cross iteration scheme we reduce the existence of traveling wave solutions to the existence of a pair of upper and lower solutions the general results obtained will be applied to type k monotone diffusive lotka volterra systems of higher dimension

positive heteroclinics and traveling waves for scalar population models with a single delay the existence of positive heteroclinic solutions is proven for a class of scalar population models with one discrete delay traveling wave solutions for scalar delayed reaction diusion equations are also obtained as perturbations of heteroclinic solutions of the associated equation without diusion as an illustration the results are applied to the nicholson s blowflies equation with diusion n t t x d 2n x2 t x n t x pn t x e an t x in the case of p e for which the nonlinearity is non monotone

traveling waves for time delayed reaction diffusion equations with degenerate diffusion abstract this paper is concerned with time delayed reaction diffusion equations with degenerate diffusion when the term for birth rate is a nonlocal integral with a heat kernel the family of minimum wave speeds corresponding to all the degenerate diffusion coefficients is proved to admit a uniform positive infimum however when the term for birth rate is local there is no positive infimum of all the minimum wave speeds this difference indicates that the nonlocal effect plays a role as laplacian such that a positive lower bound independent of the degenerate diffusion exists for the minimum wave speeds the approach adopted for the proof is the monotone technique with the viscosity vanishing method the degeneracy of diffusion for the equation causes us essential difficulty in the proof a number of numerical simulations are also carried out at the end of the paper which further numerically confirm our theoretical results