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Traveling wave solutions in a Lotka-Volterra type competition recursion

Abstract

This paper is concerned with the traveling wave solutions of a competitive integrodifference system with Lotka-Volterra type nonlinearity. The existence of traveling wave solutions is proved by constructing generalized upper and lower solutions. The asymptotic behavior of traveling wave solutions is established by combining the theory of asymptotic spreading with the idea of contracting rectangles. The nonexistence of monotone traveling wave solutions is also confirmed by the theory of asymptotic spreading.

1 Introduction

In this paper, we study the traveling wave solutions of the following integrodifference system with Lotka-Volterra type nonlinearity:

{ X n + 1 ( x ) = R r 1 X n ( y ) [ 1 X n ( y ) a 1 Y n ( y ) ] g 1 ( x y ) d y , Y n + 1 ( x ) = R r 2 Y n ( y ) [ 1 Y n ( y ) a 2 X n ( y ) ] g 2 ( x y ) d y ,
(1.1)

in which nN{0}, and r i >0, a i 0, i=1,2, are constants. For i=1,2, g i is the probability function describing the random walk of individuals under consideration, and it is the so-called kernel function. In particular, we take the following conditions in this paper:

(A1) g i is Lebesgue measurable and integrable on and R g i (y)dy=1;

(A2) g i (y)= g i (y)0, yR, and for each λR, R g i (y) e λ y dy<.

For the parameters in (1.1), we also give the following assumptions:

(A3) r 1 , r 2 (1,4);

(A4) 1 l 1 a 1 l 2 0, 1 l 2 a 2 l 1 0, where

l i ={ r i 1 r i , r i ( 1 , 2 ) , r i 4 , r i [ 2 , 4 )

for i=1,2;

(A5) r 1 (1 a 1 l 2 )>1, r 2 (1 a 2 l 1 )>1;

(A6) 11/ r 1 > a 1 (11/ r 2 ), 11/ r 2 > a 2 (11/ r 1 );

(A7) 12 l 1 a 1 l 2 0, 12 l 2 a 2 l 1 0.

We now give some illustration of (A3)-(A7) from the viewpoint of both the literature and the population dynamics of the corresponding difference system

X n + 1 = r 1 X n [1 X n a 1 Y n ], Y n + 1 = r 2 Y n [1 Y n a 2 X n ].
(1.2)

If the inter-specific vanishes ( a 1 = a 2 =0) and (A3) holds in (1.2), then X n + 1 = r 1 X n [1 X n ] or Y n + 1 = r 2 Y n [1 Y n ]:[0,1][0,1] and is persistent in population dynamics (see Murray [[1], Section 2.3] for the dynamics). Condition (A4) provides a positive invariant region of the difference system (1.2), namely, [0, l 1 ]×[0, l 2 ]. (A5) indicates that the inter-specific is weak, namely, even if the competitor X n ( Y n ) takes the maximal value l 1 ( l 2 ), the species Y n ( X n ) still persists. The coexistence steady state of (1.2) exists if (A6) holds. (A7) leads to a comparison principle appealing to the difference system (1.2) in [0, l 1 ]×[0, l 2 ]. Finally, if (A3)-(A7) hold, then (1.2) has a stable steady state. In particular, there are different parameters such that part or all of (A3)-(A7) hold. For example, if r 1 =1.5, r 2 =1.6, a 1 = a 2 =0.1, then (1.2) satisfies (A3)-(A7); if r 1 =1.5, r 2 =1.8, a 1 = a 2 =0.5, then (1.2) satisfies (A3)-(A6), if r 1 =1.2, r 2 =1.8, a 1 = a 2 =0.5, then (A3) and (A4) hold.

Hereafter, a traveling wave solution of (1.1) is a special solution having the form

X n (x)=ϕ(t), Y n (x)=ψ(t),t=x+cn,

in which c>0 is the wave speed and (ϕ,ψ) describes the wave profile that propagates in the media . Then (ϕ,ψ) and c must satisfy

{ ϕ ( t + c ) = R r 1 ϕ ( y ) ( 1 ϕ ( y ) a 1 ψ ( y ) ) g 1 ( t y ) d y , ψ ( t + c ) = R r 2 ψ ( y ) ( 1 ψ ( y ) a 2 ϕ ( y ) ) g 2 ( t y ) d y
(1.3)

for tR. To describe determinative transition processes between different states, proper asymptotic behavior satisfied by the traveling wave solutions is often necessary. In this paper, we require the following asymptotic boundary conditions:

lim t ( ϕ ( t ) , ψ ( t ) ) =(0,0), lim inf t ϕ(t)>0, lim inf t ψ(t)>0.
(1.4)

Furthermore, we also consider the following stronger ones:

lim t ( ϕ ( t ) , ψ ( t ) ) =(0,0), lim t ϕ(t)= k 1 , lim t ψ(t)= k 2 ,
(1.5)

in which

k 1 = 1 1 r 1 a 1 ( 1 1 r 2 ) 1 a 1 a 2 >0, k 2 = 1 1 r 2 a 2 ( 1 1 r 1 ) 1 a 1 a 2 >0,

provided that (A6) is true. In population dynamics, (1.3) with (1.4) or (1.3) with (1.5) could formulate the successful invasion of two competitors.

To study the existence of traveling wave solutions of competitive recursions of two competitors, Lin et al. [2] established an abstract scheme and the existence of traveling wave solutions was reduced to the existence of upper and lower solutions. Since the competitive system in [2] does not generate monotone semiflows when the synchronous invasion of two competitors is concerned, the asymptotic behavior of traveling wave solutions cannot be confirmed by the monotonicity of them (see [315] for monostable traveling wave solutions of (local) monotone recursions). In [2], the asymptotic behavior of traveling wave solutions was obtained by that of upper and lower solutions. The method was also applied to several competitive systems; see [1618] and the references cited therein. Without the requirements of upper and lower solutions, it is difficult to obtain the asymptotic behavior of traveling wave solutions [19]. In fact, for coupled systems with general kernels, it is not an easy job to construct proper upper and lower solutions satisfying the asymptotic behavior in [2], and [1618] just obtained the existence of traveling wave solutions of some systems with special kernels. Although the kernel functions in [2, 1618] satisfy some special conditions, the verification of upper and lower solutions is still very complex, and the nonexistence of nontrivial traveling wave solutions of models in [2, 1618] remains open.

To simplify the construction of upper and lower solutions and provide a more general result of the existence of traveling wave solutions of recursions, Lin [20] further considered the traveling wave solutions of recursions and gave some simpler conditions. By the theory in [20], the existence of traveling wave solutions can be obtained by the existence of upper and lower solutions which are easy to construct. Moreover, by the properties of the corresponding difference systems, the asymptotic behavior of traveling wave solutions was also studied. Moreover, for the model investigated by [2, 17], Lin [20] also obtained the nonexistence of nontrivial traveling wave solutions by the theory of asymptotic spreading.

In this paper, we shall establish the existence and nonexistence of (1.3) with (1.4) or (1.3) with (1.5), and we present the corresponding mathematical results by the idea in [20]. In particular, we shall not take special general kernels g 1 , g 2 , and just add conditions (A1)-(A2) in what follows.

The rest of this paper is organized as follows. In Section 2, we investigate the existence of traveling wave solutions by constructing upper and lower solutions and applying Schauder’s fixed point theorem in a functional space equipped with the decay norm. In Section 3, the asymptotic boundary conditions (1.4) and (1.5) will be considered by combining the theory of asymptotic spreading with the idea of contracting rectangles in [20]. Finally, the nonexistence of monotone traveling wave solutions is proved, which indicates that the threshold in the paper is the minimal wave speed of monotone traveling wave solutions of (1.1).

2 Existence of traveling wave solutions

In this paper, we shall utilize standard partial ordering in R 2 . Also let X be the set of uniformly continuous and bounded functions from to R 2 . Moreover, we denote

X [ 0 , L ] = { Φ = ( ϕ , ψ ) X : 0 ψ ( t ) l 1 , 0 ϕ ( t ) l 2 , t R } .

Let || be the supremum norm in R 2 and μ>0 be a constant. We define

B μ ( R , R 2 ) = { Φ X : sup x R | Φ ( x ) | e μ | x | < } ,

and the decay norm

|Φ | μ = sup x R |Φ(x)| e μ | x | ,Φ B μ ( R , R 2 ) .

Then ( B μ (R, R 2 ),| | μ ) is a Banach space.

Before discussing (1.1), we first consider the corresponding difference equation

{ X n + 1 = r 1 X n [ 1 X n a 1 Y n ] , X 0 = x 0 , Y n + 1 = r 2 Y n [ 1 Y n a 2 X n ] , Y 0 = y 0 , n + 1 N .
(2.1)

Lemma 2.1 For (2.1), we have the following conclusions:

(D1) if (A3)-(A4) hold, then [0, l 1 ]×[0, l 2 ] is invariant, namely, if x 0 [0, l 1 ], y 0 [0, l 2 ], then X n [0, l 1 ], Y n [0, l 2 ], nN;

(D2) if (A3), (A4), and (A7) are true and x 0 [0, l 1 ], y 0 [0, l 2 ], then for each nN, X n  ( Y n ) is monotone increasing in X n 1 ( Y n 1 ) and monotone decreasing in Y n 1 ( X n 1 ).

We now introduce some constants. Denote

Λ i (λ,c)= r i R e λ y λ c g i (y)dy,i=1,2

for λR and c0. Then the following result holds.

Lemma 2.2 There exists a positive constant c >0 such that c< c implies that Λ 1 (λ,c)>1 for any λ0 or Λ 2 (λ,c)>1 for any λ0. If c> c , then Λ i (λ,c)=1 has at least one positive root λ i (c) such that Λ i ( λ i (c),c)=1 and Λ i (λ,c)>1 for λ(0, λ i (c)), i=1,2. Moreover, there exists γ=γ(c)(1,2) such that Λ i ( λ i (c),c)<1 for all λ i (c)( λ i (c),γ λ i (c)], i=1,2.

By Liang and Zhao [[21], Lemma 3.8], Lemma 2.2 is clear and c is defined by

c =max { inf λ > 0 ln ( r 1 R e λ y g 1 ( y ) d y ) λ , inf λ > 0 ln ( r 2 R e λ y g 2 ( y ) d y ) λ } .

In what follows, we suppose that c> c is fixed. If (ϕ,ψ) X [ 0 , L ] , then we define P=( P 1 , P 2 ): X [ 0 , L ] X by

P 1 ( ϕ , ψ ) ( t ) = R r 1 ϕ ( y ) ( 1 ϕ ( y ) a 1 ψ ( y ) ) g 1 ( t c y ) d y , P 2 ( ϕ , ψ ) ( t ) = R r 2 ψ ( y ) ( 1 ψ ( y ) a 2 ϕ ( y ) ) g 2 ( t c y ) d y .

In particular, P also admits the following properties.

Lemma 2.3 P: X [ 0 , L ] X [ 0 , L ] .

Lemma 2.3 is clear by Lemma 2.1 and (A1)-(A2), and we omit the proof here. Clearly, a fixed point of P in X [ 0 , L ] is a solution to (1.3). Therefore, it suffices to prove the existence of the fixed points of P by Schauder’s fixed point theorem, and we first construct a potential set of wave profiles.

For the purpose, we define continuous functions

ϕ ¯ (t)=min { e λ 1 t , l 1 } , ψ ¯ (t)=min { e λ 2 t , l 2 }

and

ϕ ̲ (t)=max { e λ 1 t M e η λ 1 t , 0 } , ψ ̲ (t)=max { e λ 2 t M e η λ 2 t , 0 } ,

where M>1 is a positive constant clarified later and η(1,2) such that

η λ 1 < λ 1 + λ 2 ,η λ 2 < λ 1 + λ 2 , Λ 1 (η λ 1 ,c)<1, Λ 2 (η λ 2 ,c)<1.

With these notations, we define the following set of potential wave profiles:

Γ= { ( ϕ , ψ ) X , ( ϕ ̲ , ψ ̲ ) ( ϕ , ψ ) ( ϕ ¯ , ψ ¯ ) } ,

which satisfies the following nice properties.

Lemma 2.4 If M>1 is large such that

( ϕ ̲ , ψ ̲ )( ϕ ¯ , ψ ¯ ),

then Γ is convex and nonempty. Moreover, it is closed and bounded with respect to the decay norm | | μ .

Lemma 2.5 Assume that (A3)-(A4) hold. If M>1 is large, then P:ΓΓ.

Proof By Lemma 2.1, it suffices to verify that

( P 1 ( ϕ , ψ ) ( t ) , P 2 ( ϕ , ψ ) ( t ) ) ( ϕ ¯ ( t ) , ψ ¯ ( t ) ) ,tR

and

( P 1 ( ϕ , ψ ) ( t ) , P 2 ( ϕ , ψ ) ( t ) ) ( ϕ ̲ ( t ) , ψ ̲ ( t ) ) ,tR

for (ϕ,ψ)Γ.

If ϕ ¯ (t)= e λ 1 t , then

P 1 ( ϕ , ψ ) ( t ) = R r 1 ϕ ( y ) ( 1 ϕ ( y ) a 1 ψ ( y ) ) g 1 ( t c y ) d y R r 1 ϕ ( y ) g 1 ( t c y ) d y R r 1 e λ 1 y g 1 ( t c y ) d y = e λ 1 t = ϕ ¯ ( t ) .

If ϕ ¯ (t)= l 1 , then Lemma 2.1 implies that

P 1 ( ϕ , ψ ) ( t ) = R r 1 ϕ ( y ) ( 1 ϕ ( y ) a 1 ψ ( y ) ) g 1 ( t c y ) d y R r 1 ϕ ( y ) ( 1 ϕ ( y ) ) g 1 ( t c y ) d y l 1 = ϕ ¯ ( t ) ,

and we have verified that

P 1 (ϕ,ψ)(t) ϕ ¯ (t),tR.

In a similar way, we can prove that

P 2 (ϕ,ψ)(t) ψ ¯ (t),tR.

If ϕ ̲ (t)=0, then

1 ϕ ( y ) a 1 ψ ( y ) 1 ϕ ¯ ( y ) a 1 ψ ¯ ( y ) 1 l 1 a 1 l 2 0 = ϕ ̲ ( y )

by (A4) and

P 1 (ϕ,ψ)(t)= R r 1 ϕ(y) ( 1 ϕ ( y ) a 1 ψ ( y ) ) g 1 (tcy)dy0= ϕ ̲ (t)

is clear. Otherwise, (ϕ,ψ)Γ leads to

r 1 ϕ ( y ) ( 1 ϕ ( y ) a 1 ψ ( y ) ) = r 1 ϕ ( y ) r 1 ϕ 2 ( y ) r 1 a 1 ϕ ( y ) ψ ( y ) r 1 e λ 1 y r 1 M e η λ 1 y r 1 e 2 λ 1 y r 1 a 1 e ( λ 1 + λ 2 ) y

and

P 1 ( ϕ , ψ ) ( t ) = R r 1 ϕ ( y ) ( 1 ϕ ( y ) a 1 ψ ( y ) ) g 1 ( t c y ) d y R [ r 1 e λ 1 y r 1 M e η λ 1 y ] g 1 ( t c y ) d y R [ r 1 e 2 λ 1 y + r 1 a 1 e ( λ 1 + λ 2 ) y ] g 1 ( t c y ) d y = e λ 1 t M Λ 1 ( η λ 1 , c ) e η λ 1 t Λ 1 ( 2 λ 1 , c ) e 2 λ 1 t a 1 Λ 1 ( λ 1 + λ 2 , c ) e ( λ 1 + λ 2 ) t e λ 1 t M e η λ 1 t = ϕ ̲ ( t )

provided that

M1+ Λ 1 ( 2 λ 1 , c ) + a 1 Λ 1 ( λ 1 + λ 2 , c ) 1 Λ 1 ( η λ 1 , c ) >1.

In a similar way, when

M1+ Λ 2 ( 2 λ 2 , c ) + a 2 Λ 2 ( λ 1 + λ 2 , c ) 1 Λ 2 ( η λ 1 , c ) >1

is true, we have

P 2 (ϕ,ψ)(t) ψ ̲ (t),tR.

The proof is complete. □

Lemma 2.6 Assume that (A3)-(A4) hold. Then P:ΓΓ is complete continuous in the sense of the decay norm | | μ .

The proof is provided by Lin [[20], Lemma 3.4] and we omit it here.

Theorem 2.7 Assume that (A3)-(A4) hold. Then for each c> c , (1.3) has a positive solution (ϕ,ψ) such that

lim t ( ϕ ( t ) , ψ ( t ) ) =(0,0), lim t ( ϕ ( t ) e λ 1 t , ψ ( t ) e λ 2 t ) =(1,1)

and

0<ϕ(t) l 1 ,0<ψ(t) l 2 ,tR.

The result is evident by Schauder’s fixed point theorem and Lemmas 2.4-2.6, and we omit the proof here.

3 Asymptotic behavior of traveling wave solutions

In this section, we investigate the asymptotic behavior of positive solutions of (1.3). We first consider the initial value problem

{ u n + 1 ( x ) = R b ( u n ( y ) ) g ( x y ) d y , u 0 ( x ) = u ( x ) , x R , n + 1 N ,
(3.1)

where b(u) satisfies

(U1) for some U + >0, b(u):[0, U + ][0, U + ] is Lipschitz continuous and monotone increasing;

(U2) there exists u + (0, U + ] such that b(u)>u, u(0, u + ), b( u + )= u + ; if U + > u + , then b(u)<u, u( u + , U + );

(U3) b(0)=0;

(U4) b (0)>1 and b(u)< b (0)u, u(0, U + ].

In literature, (U1)-(U4) imply the comparison principle, monostability, and persistence in (3.1). More precisely, by Hsu and Zhao [4], we have the following conclusion.

Lemma 3.1 Assume that g satisfies (A1)-(A2).

  1. (1)

    If u(x) is bounded and uniformly continuous such that

    0<u(x) U + ,xR,

    then lim n u n (0)= u + . Moreover, let C>0 satisfy

    { R b ( 0 ) e λ y λ c g ( y ) d y = 1  has no real root  λ 0  if  c < C , R b ( 0 ) e λ y λ c g ( y ) d y = 1  has positive roots if  c C ,

    then for each c<C, we have

    lim inf n inf | x | < c n u n (x)= lim sup n sup | x | < c n u n (x)= u + .
  2. (2)

    If u ¯ n (x) is bounded and uniformly continuous for each n such that

    0 u ¯ n (x) U + ,n+1N,xR

    and

    { u ¯ n + 1 ( x ) ( ) R b ( u ¯ n ( y ) ) g ( x y ) d y , u ¯ 0 ( x ) ( ) u ( x ) , x R , n + 1 N ,

    then u ¯ n (x)() u n (x), xR, nN.

Theorem 3.2 Assume that (A3)-(A5) hold. If (ϕ,ψ) is given by Theorem 2.7, then (1.4) is true.

Proof Note that a traveling wave solution is a special invariant solution; then ϕ(t)= X n (x) satisfies the following inequality:

{ X n + 1 ( x ) R r 1 X n ( y ) [ 1 X n ( y ) a 1 l 2 ] g 1 ( x y ) d y , X 0 ( x ) = ϕ ( x ) [ 0 , l 1 ]

for all n+1N. Define

b ̲ (u)= inf v [ u , l 1 ] { r 1 v [ 1 v a 1 l 2 ] } .

Clearly, b ̲ (u) admits the following properties:

(b1) b ̲ (u):[0, l 1 ][0, l 1 ] is Lipschitz continuous and monotone increasing;

(b2) b ̲ (0)=0, b ̲ (0)= r 1 (1 a 1 l 2 )>1;

(b3) there exists u ̲ + (0, l 1 ] such that b ̲ ( u ̲ + )= u ̲ + and

b ̲ (u)>u,u ( 0 , u ̲ + ) ;

(b4) if u ̲ + < l 1 , then b ̲ (u)<u, u( u ̲ + , l 1 ].

Therefore, b ̲ (u) satisfies (U1)-(U4) and Lemma 3.1 implies that

lim inf n X n (0) u ̲ + >0

and

r 1 4 lim inf t ϕ(t) u ̲ + >0.

In a similar way, we have

r 2 4 lim inf t ψ(t)>0.

The proof is complete. □

Theorem 3.3 Assume that (A3)-(A7) hold. If (ϕ,ψ) is given by Theorem 2.7, then (1.5) is true.

Proof By what we have done, we see that

r 1 4 lim sup t ϕ(t) lim inf t ϕ(t)>0

and

r 2 4 lim sup t ψ(t) lim inf t ψ(t)>0.

Define

lim inf t ϕ(t)= u ̲ , lim sup t ϕ(t)= u ¯

and

lim inf t ψ(t)= v ̲ , lim sup t ψ(t)= v ¯ .

Applying the dominated convergence theorem in P when t, then the monotone condition (A7) implies that

u ¯ + a 1 v ̲ 1 1 r 1 ,
(3.2)
v ̲ + a 2 u ¯ 1 1 r 2 ,
(3.3)
u ̲ + a 1 v ¯ 1 1 r 1 ,
(3.4)
v ¯ + a 2 u ̲ 1 1 r 2 .
(3.5)

By (3.2) and (3.4), we have

u ¯ u ̲ a 1 ( v ¯ v ̲ ).
(3.6)

Furthermore, (3.3) and (3.5) lead to

v ¯ v ̲ a 2 ( u ¯ u ̲ ).
(3.7)

Since (A6) implies that a 1 a 2 <1, then we have

u ¯ = u ̲ , v ¯ = v ̲

by (3.6) and (3.7). Again by (A6), we see that

u ¯ = u ̲ = k 1 , v ¯ = v ̲ = k 2 .

The proof is complete. □

Remark 3.4 Although we did not construct the contracting rectangle (see [20]) in this paper, the proof of Theorem 3.3 was motivated by Lin [[20], Sections 4-5]. Of course, if a model involves more unknown functions, it is difficult to obtain the asymptotic behavior of traveling wave solutions by the inequalities similar to (3.6) and (3.7).

4 Nonexistence of monotone traveling wave solutions

In this section, we confirm that c is the minimal wave speed of monotone invasion traveling wave solutions by presenting the following nonexistence of monotone traveling wave solutions.

Theorem 4.1 Assume that (A3)-(A6) hold. If c< c , then there is no strict monotone (ϕ(t),ψ(t)) satisfying (1.3)-(1.4) and

0<ϕ(t)< k 1 ,0<ψ(t)< k 2 .
(4.1)

Proof Without loss of generality, we assume that a 1 >0 and

Λ 1 (λ,c)>1,c ( 0 , c ) ,λ0.

Were the statement false, then there exists c 1 (0, c ) such that there is (ϕ(t),ψ(t)) satisfying (1.3)-(1.4) and (4.1).

Since ϕ(t), ψ(t) are monotone increasing, then

tϕ(t),tψ(t)

are one to one and there is a continuous mapping h such that

h ( ϕ ( t ) ) = r 1 ( 1 ϕ ( t ) a 1 ψ ( t ) ) ,

in which h:[0, k 1 ][1, r 1 ] satisfying

(H1) h(0)= r 1 ;

(H2) h:[0, k 1 ][1, r 1 ] is continuous and strictly monotone decreasing;

(H3) h( k 1 )=1.

At the same time, h also leads to

ϕ(t+ c 1 )= R ϕ(y)h ( ϕ ( y ) ) g 1 (ty)dy,tR.

Let 2x=( c 1 + c )n, then

t=x+ c 1 n,n

such that

ϕ(t)0,t.

Note that ϕ(t)= u n (x) is a special solution to

{ u n + 1 ( x ) = R h ( u n ( y ) ) g 1 ( x y ) d y , u 0 ( x ) = ϕ ( x ) > 0 , x R , n + 1 N .
(4.2)

Define h ̲ (u)= inf v [ u , k 1 ] h(v), then h(u) is monotone and continuous for u[0, k 1 ]. Moreover, applying Lemma 3.1 to (4.2), we see that C= c . Again by Lemma 3.1, we obtain

lim inf n , 2 x = ( c 1 + c ) n u n (x)>0

and

lim inf t ϕ(t)>0.

A contradiction occurs. The proof is complete. □

Before ending this paper, we make the following remark.

Remark 4.2 By what we have done, c is the minimal wave speed of monotone traveling wave solutions of (1.1). However, when the wave speed is c , the existence and nonexistence of nontrivial traveling wave solutions remain open. At the same time, if we remove the monotonicity of traveling wave solutions in Theorem 4.1, then we believe that the result still holds. Clearly, for these two problems, we cannot discuss them directly by the methods similar to those in this paper, and we shall consider these problems in our future studies.

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The first author was supported by NSF of Gansu Province of China (No. 1208RJYA004) and the Development Program for Outstanding Young Teachers in Lanzhou University of Technology (No. 1010ZCX019), the second author was supported by National Undergraduate Training Programs for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (No. 201310730086).

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Pan, S., Yang, P. Traveling wave solutions in a Lotka-Volterra type competition recursion. Adv Differ Equ 2014, 173 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1186/1687-1847-2014-173

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