Traveling wave solutions of a nonlocal dispersal SIRS model with spatio-temporal delay

Abstract

This paper is mainly concerned with the existence and nonexistence of traveling wave solutions of a nonlocal dispersal SIRS model with nonlocal delayed transmissions. We find that the existence and nonexistence of traveling wave solutions are determined by the critical wave speed [Formula: see text]. More specifically, we establish the existence of traveling wave solutions for every wave speed [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] by means of upper-lower solutions and Schauder’s fixed point theorem. Nonexistence of traveling wave solutions is obtained by Laplace transform for any wave speed [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text].