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Methods and Applications of Analysis
Volume 16 (2009)
Number 3
Concentration in Lotka-Volterra Parabolic or Integral Equations: A General Convergence Result
Pages: 321 – 340
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4310/MAA.2009.v16.n3.a4
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Abstract
We study two equations of Lotka-Volterra type that describe the Darwinian evolution of a population density. In the first model a Laplace term represents the mutations. In the second one we model the mutations by an integral kernel. In both cases, we use a nonlinear birth-death term that corresponds to the competition between the traits leading to selection.
In the limit of rare or small mutations, we prove that the solution converges to a sum of moving Dirac masses. This limit is described by a constrained Hamilton-Jacobi equation. This was already proved in Dirac concentrations in "Lotka-Volterra parabolic PDEs", Indiana Univ. Math. J., 57:7 (2008), pp. 3275-3301, for the case with a Laplace term. Here we generalize the assumptions on the initial data and prove the same result for the integro-differential equation.
Keywords
Adaptive evolution, Lotka-Volterra equation, Hamilton-Jacobi equation, viscosity solutions, Dirac concentrations
2010 Mathematics Subject Classification
35B25, 35K57, 47G20, 49L25, 92D15
Published 1 January 2009