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Existence and stability of traveling curved fronts for nonlocal dispersal equations with bistable nonlinearity

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This paper is concerned with existence and stability of V-shaped traveling fronts for a class of nonlocal dispersal equations with unbalanced bistable nonlinearity. The main tool is sub- and supersolution technique combined with a comparison principle.

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The work is supported by NNSF of China (11901330).

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Niu, HT. Existence and stability of traveling curved fronts for nonlocal dispersal equations with bistable nonlinearity. Z. Angew. Math. Phys. 73, 90 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00033-022-01734-8

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