N-barrier maximum principle for degenerate elliptic systems and its application
Chiun‐Chuan Chen, Li-Chang Hung, Hsiao-Feng Liu · Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems · 2017
In this paper, we prove the N-barrier maximum principle, which extends the result in C.-C. Chen and L.-C. Hung (2016) from linear diffusion equations to nonlinear diffusion equations, for a wide class of degenerate elliptic systems of porous medium type. The N-barrier maximum principle provides a priori upper and lower bounds of the solutions to the above-mentioned degenerate nonlinear diffusion equations including the Shigesada-Kawasaki-Teramoto model as a special case. We also apply the N-barrier maximum principle to a coexistence problem in ecology, where we show the nonexistence of traveling waves in a three-species degenerate elliptic system.