Periodic traveling wave solutions of periodic integrodifference systems

Abstract

This paper is concerned with the periodic traveling wave solutions of integrodifference systems with periodic parameters. Without the assumptions on monotonicity, the existence of periodic traveling wave solutions is deduced to the existence of generalized upper and lower solutions by fixed point theorem and an operator with multi steps. The asymptotic behavior of periodic traveling wave solutions is investigated by the stability of periodic solutions in the corresponding initial value problem or the corresponding difference systems. To illustrate our conclusions, we study the periodic traveling wave solutions of two models including a scalar equation and a competitive type system, which do not generate monotone semiflows. The existence or nonexistence of periodic traveling wave solutions with all positive wave speeds is presented, which implies the minimal wave speeds of these models.