Existence and uniqueness of traveling waves for non-monotone integral equations with application

Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications

Volumn 365, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 729-741

  Wu, Shi Liang ^a   Liu, San Yang ^a  

^a XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Existence; Non monotone integral equations; Schauder's fixed point theorem; Traveling waves; Uniqueness

Indexed keywords

EID: 74849085114     PISSN: 0022247X     EISSN: 10960813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmaa.2009.11.028     Document Type: Article

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