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# Traveling wave solutions of competitive models with free boundaries

• We study two systems of reaction diffusion equations with monostable or bistable type of nonlinearities and with free boundaries. These systems are used as multi-species competitive model. For two-species models, we prove the existence of traveling wave solutions, each of which consists of two semi-waves intersecting at the free boundary. For three-species models, we also obtain some traveling wave solutions. In this case, however, every traveling wave solution consists of two semi-waves and one compactly supported wave in between, each intersecting with its neighbors at the free boundaries.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35K57, 35C07; Secondary: 35R35.

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