Bistable traveling waves in a delayed competitive system

Abstract

<p style='text-indent:20px;'>This paper is concerned with the existence, uniqueness and asymptotic stability of traveling wave solutions in a delayed competitive system with spatial diffusion. When the interspecific competition is strong, the corresponding functional differential system has two stable and two unstable steady states. Firstly, we establish the existence of bistable traveling wave solutions by the theory of monotone semiflows. With the help of squeezing technique based on comparison principle, the asymptotic stability of traveling wave solutions is proved, which further implies the uniqueness of wave speed and wave profile in the sense of phase shift.</p>