Traveling waves in an SEIR epidemic model with the variable total population

Zhiting Xu

doi:10.3934/dcdsb.2016118

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2016, Volume 21, Issue 10: 3723-3742. Doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2016118

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Traveling waves in an SEIR epidemic model with the variable total population

Zhiting Xu^1,

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School of Mathematical Sciences, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510631

Received: November 30, 2015

Revised: January 31, 2016

Published: November 2016

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In the present paper, we propose a simple diffusive SEIR epidemic model where the total population is variable. We first give the explicit formula of the basic reproduction number $\mathcal{R}_0$ for the model. And hence, we show that if $\mathcal{R}_0>1$, then there exists a constant $c^*>0$ such that for any $c>c^*$, the model admits a nontrivial traveling wave solution, and if $\mathcal{R}_0<1$ and $c>0$ (or, $\mathcal{R}_0>1$ and $c\in(0,c^*)$), then the model has no nontrivial traveling wave solution. Consequently, we obtain the full information about the existence and non-existence of traveling wave solutions of the model by determined by the constants $\mathcal{R}_0$ and $c^*$. The proof of the main results is mainly based on Schauder fixed point theorem and Laplace transform.

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Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35C07, 92D30; Secondary: 35K57.

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