Asymptotic behaviour of a non-autonomous population equation with diffusion in $L^1$
Author(s) -
Abdelaziz Rhandi,
Roland Schnaubelt
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
discrete and continuous dynamical systems
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.289
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1553-5231
pISSN - 1078-0947
DOI - 10.3934/dcds.1999.5.663
Subject(s) - extrapolation , mathematics , spectral radius , diffusion , population model , population , diffusion equation , position (finance) , radius , mathematical analysis , operator (biology) , asymptotic analysis , demography , physics , computer science , eigenvalues and eigenvectors , economics , economy , computer security , repressor , service (business) , chemistry , sociology , biochemistry , quantum mechanics , transcription factor , thermodynamics , finance , gene
We prove existence and uniquences of positive solutions of an age-structured population equation of McKendrick type with spatial diffusion in $L^1$. The coefficients may depend on age and position. Moreover, the mortality rate is allowed to be unbounded and the fertility rate is time dependent. In the time periodic case, we estimate the essential spectral radius of the monodromy operator which gives information on the asymptotic behaviour of solutions. Our work extends previous results in [19], [24], [30], and [31] to the non-autonomous situation. We use the theory of evolution semigroups and extrapolation spaces.
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