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Some remarks about the wave speed and travelling wave solutions of a nonlinear integral operator

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In this paper, we extend the existence of travelling wave solutions of a nonlinear operator in the inferior case to higher dimensions and establish the uniqueness of that solution. In addition we determine the sign of the wave speed in a special case.

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Creegan, P., Lui, R. Some remarks about the wave speed and travelling wave solutions of a nonlinear integral operator. J. Math. Biology 20, 59–68 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00275861

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