{"title":"Some remarks on segregation of $k$ species in strongly competing systems","authors":"F. Lanzara, Eugenio Montefusco","doi":"10.4171/ifb/458","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Spatial segregation occurs in population dynamics when k species interact in a highly competitive way. As a model for the study of this phenomenon, we consider the competitiondiffusion system of k differential equations −∆ui(x) = −μui(x) ∑ j 6=i uj(x) i = 1, ..., k in a domain D with appropriate boundary conditions. Any ui represents a population density and the parameter μ determines the interaction strength between the populations. The purpose of this paper is to study the geometry of the limiting configuration as μ −→ +∞ on a planar domain for any number of species. If k is even we show that some limiting configurations are strictly connected to the solution of a Dirichlet problem for the Laplace equation. 2010 Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary 35Bxx, 35J47; Secondary 92D25.","PeriodicalId":1,"journal":{"name":"Accounts of Chemical Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":16.4000,"publicationDate":"2021-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"3","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Accounts of Chemical Research","FirstCategoryId":"100","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4171/ifb/458","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Spatial segregation occurs in population dynamics when k species interact in a highly competitive way. As a model for the study of this phenomenon, we consider the competitiondiffusion system of k differential equations −∆ui(x) = −μui(x) ∑ j 6=i uj(x) i = 1, ..., k in a domain D with appropriate boundary conditions. Any ui represents a population density and the parameter μ determines the interaction strength between the populations. The purpose of this paper is to study the geometry of the limiting configuration as μ −→ +∞ on a planar domain for any number of species. If k is even we show that some limiting configurations are strictly connected to the solution of a Dirichlet problem for the Laplace equation. 2010 Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary 35Bxx, 35J47; Secondary 92D25.
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