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This paper is devoted to providing a simple condition, in term of spectral theory, that characterizes existence/nonexistence and uniqueness of positive bounded solution to
where f is of monostable KPP type nonlinearity and periodic in y. Our contribution answers a conjecture raised by Prof. H. Berestycki: which suitable assumption can impose at infinity that characterizes existence/nonexistence and uniqueness of (0.1) instead of the followings \(\liminf _{|z|\rightarrow \infty }\partial _u f(z,0)>0\) as in Berestycki et al. (Ann Mat Pura Appl 186(4):469–507, 2007) and \(\limsup _{|z|\rightarrow \infty }\partial _u f(z,0)<0\) as in Berestycki et al. (Bull Math Biol 71:399, 2008) and Berestycki and Rossi (Discret Contin Dyn Syst Ser B 21:41–67, 2008) but allow \(\partial _u f(z,0)\) to change sign all the way as \(|z|\rightarrow \infty \)? Our result is simply based on maximum principle and complements to those in Berestycki et al. (Ann Mat Pura Appl 186:469–507, 2007; Bull Math Biol 71:399, 2008), Berestycki and Rossi (Discret Contin Dyn Syst Ser B 21:41–67, 2008) and Vo (J Differ Equ 259:4947–4988, 2015).
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Vo, HH. A spectral condition for Liouville-type result of monostable KPP equation in periodic shear flows. Calc. Var. 55, 39 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00526-016-0980-0
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