Asymptotic spreading of interacting species with multiple fronts I: A geometric optics approach

King-Yeung Lam; Qian Liu; Shuang Liu

Asymptotic spreading of interacting species with multiple fronts I: A geometric optics approach

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Pith's one-line read This paper proves that a slower competing species invading empty habitat can spread at a nonlocally pulled speed, given explicitly in terms of the model parameters, and that the solution develops exactly three invasion fronts with these…

desk verdict Exact spreading speeds for weak competition with a nonlocally pulled front; the main theorem is new and the Hamilton-Jacobi framework works, but the verification of Freidlin's condition needs a fill-in. read the letter →

arxiv 1908.05025 v2 pith:ADNI4QHJ submitted 2019-08-14 math.AP

Qian Liu , Shuang Liu , King-Yeung Lam This is my paper · ORCID

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keywords Lotka-Volterracompetition-diffusionspreadingspeedsgeometricopticsHamilton-JacobiequationnonlocallypulledfrontmultipleinvasionfrontsviscositysolutionWKBtransformation

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The paper establishes exact spreading speeds for the Lotka-Volterra two-species competition-diffusion system when the right half-line is initially empty. For dr>1, the solution develops three fronts: the faster species v invades empty habitat at speed 2√dr, the coexistence state invades the v-only region at speed max{c_LLW, c_nlp}, and the u-only state invades the coexistence region at speed -c̃_LLW. The novel quantity c_nlp is a nonlocally pulled speed that can strictly exceed the minimal traveling wave speed c_LLW. This resolves a question raised by Shigesada and Kawasaki about multiple invasion fronts during biological invasions, and it shows that the slower competitor's speed is determined by habitat quality far ahead of the front, not just by local conditions.

What carries the argument

The load-bearing object is the WKB transformation w_ε(t,x) = -ε log u(t/ε, x/ε) and its half-relaxed limits w_* and w^*, which satisfy viscosity sub- and super-solutions of a Hamilton-Jacobi equation whose coefficient switches at the known faster front x=2√dr t. The limits are pinned down by comparison with the explicit solution w1 = max{J1,0}, where J1 is the infimum of the path integral ∫ [|γ̇|²/4 - 1 + a χ_{γ≤c1 s}] ds over curves ending at (t,x). Solving this variational problem gives the front x=c_nlp t, and an exponential decay estimate for u along a line x=ĉt then controls the spreading speed from above via comparison with traveling waves. The machinery is the Evans-Souganidis PDE approach to geometric optics, including half-relaxed limits and Freidlin's condition, which handles coefficients depending on several moving frames.

What would settle it

Run a high-resolution numerical simulation of system (1) with a=0.6, b=0.5, d=1.5, r=1 and initial data u0=χ_{[-1000,0]}, v0=χ_{[-20,0]}, and measure sup{x:u(t,x)>0.4}/t at t=200 and t=400; Theorem 1.3 predicts the ratios converge to c2 = max{c_LLW, c_nlp} ≈ 1.3387, so a limit below that, such as 1.265, would falsify the claimed formula.

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Core claim

The central discovery is that the spreading speed c2 of the slower species u equals max{c_LLW, c_nlp}, where c_LLW is the classical spreading speed of the coexistence equilibrium into the v-only state, and c_nlp has the explicit formula c_nlp = √dr - √a + (1-a)/(√dr-√a) when √dr ≤ √a + √(1-a), and c_nlp = 2√(1-a) otherwise. The speed c_nlp is characterized by the zero level set of the viscosity solution w1 of the Hamilton-Jacobi equation min{∂t w + |∂x w|^2 + 1 - a χ_{x≤2√dr t}, w} = 0 with initial data 0 on the left half-line and ∞ on the right. In the variational representation of w1, minimizing paths spend time ahead of the moving front, so c_nlp depends on the environment in front of the invasion, making it nonlocally pulled. The paper proves convergence to the four homogeneous equilibria in the regions separated by the three fronts, and obtains the borderline case dr=1 as a limit.

Load-bearing premise

The proof relies on the slower species being exactly absent on a right half-line initially, so that the WKB variable starts as infinity there; if u0 only decays exponentially, the explicit formula for c_nlp no longer follows from the argument.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

If Theorem 1.3 is correct, the slower species u can spread strictly faster than any traveling wave of the homogeneous system would permit, with c_nlp > c_LLW whenever the faster species is not too fast relative to the competition parameters.
The asymptotic state of the system is fully classified by three speeds: ahead of c1 t the habitat is empty, between c2 t and c1 t only v persists at density 1, between c3 t and c2 t both species coexist at (k1,k2), and left of c3 t only u persists at density 1.
When dr=1, the two rightward fronts merge into one front at speed 2, so the invasion goes (1,0) ← (k1,k2) → (0,0) with the coexistence region filling the interval between -c̃_LLW t and 2t.
The same geometric optics framework is claimed to extend to systems with three or more species and to higher dimensions, because the limiting Hamilton-Jacobi problem accommodates coefficients depending on several distinct front speeds.

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If the compact-support hypothesis (H∞) is relaxed to merely exponential decay of u0 on the right, the WKB initial data would be finite rather than infinite, so the limiting Hamilton-Jacobi problem and the formula for c_nlp should change; a testable prediction is that the second front speed becomes a function of the decay rate and approaches c_nlp as the decay rate tends to infinity.
The algebraic coincidence of c_nlp with the speed found in a related monostable competition case suggests that nonlocally pulled fronts are a general mechanism in reaction-diffusion systems where a fast front modifies the effective growth rate ahead of a slower front, not a peculiarity of this parameter regime.
A direct numerical test could look for the sharp transition in (4): plotting the measured second-front speed against √dr should show a kink exactly at √dr = √a + √(1-a), with the speed formula switching branches there.

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The main theorem is the headline: for a two-species weak-competition system spreading into empty habitat, it gives the exact rightward speed of the slower species as c2 = max{c_LLW, c_nlp}, with c_nlp a genuinely nonlocal quantity. That resolves a 1997 question of Shigesada and Kawasaki and goes beyond earlier work of Girardin and Lam, which covered a different parameter regime. The geometric optics machinery — passing through the WKB transform, half-relaxed limits, and a Hamilton-Jacobi equation with coefficients depending on the faster front — is new for this three-front problem and is a good fit. The paper is clearly written, the structure is sensible, and the numerical check matches the formulas. The proofs are detailed enough that I could follow the main thread, and I do not see circular argumentation: c_nlp is computed independently in Proposition 3.5 and only later compared with c_LLW, which is an external quantity from the single-front theory.

The soft spot is the verification of Freidlin's condition in Proposition 3.5(b). The stress-test concern is fair: in the case c1/2 > sqrt(a)+sqrt(1-a), the boundary of the positivity set P is x = 2 sqrt(1-a) t, and the unconstrained minimizer for J1 at a boundary point is the straight line lying exactly on that boundary. The paper says the condition holds because P is a cone and the optimal paths are piecewise linear, but it does not explicitly show that the infimum over paths staying in the open set P equals J1(t,x)=0. This is a genuine gap in exposition, not a fatal error. For a boundary point, you can take the straight-line path and perturb it slightly upward so it stays strictly above the boundary until the final instant; the cost tends to zero as the perturbation size tends to zero. I checked this for the case at hand. So the concern is fillable, but the authors should write out that approximation argument. As it stands, the assertion is too terse for a result that the later propositions lean on.

Other cautions are minor: the compact-support hypothesis (H∞) is sharp and the explicit c_nlp will not survive with merely exponential decay; the proof of the dr=1 case is a perturbation argument that relies on continuous dependence of c_LLW on parameters, which is cited rather than proved. Neither of these undercuts the main result.

This is a solid paper worth serious refereeing. I would send it out for review, with a request to expand the proof of the Freidlin condition and to make the boundary-approximation step explicit. The main result is likely correct, and the methods will be useful to people working on nonlocal pulled fronts and multi-species spreading.

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Summary. The paper studies the invasion of two competing species modeled by the Lotka–Volterra competition-diffusion system (1) under the initial condition (H∞): species u initially occupies the left half-line, species v is compactly supported, and the right habitat is empty. The main result (Theorem 1.3) states that for dr>1 the solution develops three fronts with speeds c1=2√(dr), c2=max{c_LLW,c_nlp}, and c3=−\tilde c_LLW, where c_LLW and \tilde c_LLW are the single-front spreading speeds of Lewis et al. and c_nlp is given explicitly by (4); between the fronts the solution converges to (0,0), (0,1), (k1,k2), and (1,0), respectively. The proof combines comparison arguments for c1 and c3 and rough bounds on c2, a WKB transform w_ε=−ε log u_ε with half-relaxed limits leading to the Hamilton–Jacobi equations (33)–(34), a variational solution w1 of the limiting problem whose zero set is {x≤c_nlp t}, and a large-deviation estimate together with wave comparisons (Lemma 2.4) to obtain the upper bound on c2. Theorem 1.4 treats the case dr=1 by a perturbation argument using the dr>1 and dr<1 results.

Significance. The result is significant: it provides the first exact determination of the second spreading speed in the two-species competition invasion problem with separated fronts, resolving a question raised by Shigesada and Kawasaki, and it exhibits a speed c_nlp that is nonlocally determined and can strictly exceed the minimal traveling wave speed. The geometric-optics method, adapted from Freidlin and Evans–Souganidis, is a promising tool for multi-front problems, and the paper contains detailed appendices for the variational calculus and comparison arguments, together with numerical simulations matching the predicted speeds. The main formula is explicit and falsifiable, and the overall derivation is coherent. The only substantive weakness is that one load-bearing verification, Freidlin’s condition in Proposition 3.5(b), is too terse as written; however, the missing argument is local and straightforward, so I do not view it as a threat to the main theorem.

minor comments (6)

[Proposition 3.5(b), Eq. (41)] The verification of Freidlin’s condition is too terse. In the case c1/2>√a+√(1−a), the boundary is ∂P={x=2√(1−a)t} and the unconstrained minimizer for J1=0 is the straight line lying on ∂P, so (41) is not immediate. Please add the explicit perturbation argument, for example by considering paths γ_ε(s)=2√(1−a)s+ε s(t−s)/t, whose action tends to 0 because the boundary lies strictly below x=c1s and L1 is unchanged there.
[Lemma 3.4] The sentence “It remains to check that w∗(0,x)=∞ for x>0” appears to refer to the lower half-relaxed limit w_* rather than the upper one, since the proof that follows uses a limit inferior; please correct the symbol to avoid confusion.
[Section 2 and Proposition 2.1] The notation for maximal and minimal spreading speeds loses the overline/underline distinction in several places, in particular in Proposition 2.1(ii) and in Step 7 of its proof; please disambiguate which of \underline c2 and \bar c2 is used in (11b) and (11c).
[Lemma 3.2] The line “Furthermore,” immediately before the Proof is an incomplete sentence and should be removed or completed.
[Proposition 2.1, Step 4] The construction of the compactly supported function \tilde u0 with 0≤\tilde u0≤u0 should be stated explicitly, for instance by taking a cut-off of u0 on a bounded interval inside (−∞,0], rather than merely asserted.
[Lemma 2.4, Appendix A] The existence of a traveling wave for the perturbed system (71) at any speed above c^δ_LLW is invoked without proof or reference; please add a citation or a short justification.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity: the nonlocally pulled speed c_nlp is derived from an independent HJ variational calculation; the sole self-citation is non-load-bearing.

full rationale

The central new quantity c_nlp is not an input recycled as an output. In Section 3, the WKB transform (28)–(29) and the half-relaxed limits (32) produce the limiting Hamilton–Jacobi equation (7), whose coefficients use only the independently established speed c1=2√dr and the hypothesis (H∞). Proposition 3.5(a) then computes J1 explicitly by minimizing the Lagrangian (39), and Lemma 3.7 identifies w1=max{J1,0} via Freidlin's condition (41); the explicit zero set {(t,x): x≤c_nlp t} is therefore a consequence of the variational formula, not a fitted postulate. Proposition 4.1 and Proposition 4.2 convert this exponential estimate into the upper and lower bounds for c2, with the final value max{cLLW,c_nlp}. The only overlap with prior work by one of the authors is the remark that formula (4) coincides with [18, Theorem 1.1]; the paper does not use [18] to prove the formula or to justify any load-bearing step, so this self-citation does not constitute circularity. External inputs cLLW and c̃LLW are quoted from Lewis et al. and used as benchmarks, not as assumptions about c2. One internal caveat, noted by a careful reader, is that the verification of Freidlin's condition (41) in Proposition 3.5(b) is terse and may be incomplete at the boundary of P; however, a possible proof gap is a correctness risk, not a circularity of the derivation chain.

Assumptions & free parameters 0 free parameters · 5 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The proof introduces no free parameters: the model parameters a,b,d,r are inputs, and c_LLW, c̃_LLW are imported from prior single-front theory rather than fitted. The axioms are standard PDE tools and cited prior results; the central derivation of c_nlp is self-contained. No new entities are postulated.

assumptions (5)

domain assumption Single-front spreading speeds for the competition system exist and satisfy the bounds of Lewis et al. (Theorem 1.1 and Remark 1.2).
The quantities c_LLW and c̃_LLW appear in the final formula for c2 and c3; the paper imports them from prior work and does not prove their existence.
standard math Comparison principle for weakly coupled parabolic systems of competition type.
Used throughout for sub- and super-solutions, for example in Lemma 2.4 and Step 1 of Proposition 2.1.
standard math Viscosity solution theory for Hamilton-Jacobi equations, including half-relaxed limits, comparison, and the Evans-Souganidis representation formula.
Foundation of Section 3; the paper assumes the half-relaxed limits w* and w_* are viscosity solutions and that the representation formula holds.
standard math Continuity of spreading speeds with respect to model parameters (Volpert et al., Ch.3 Theorem 4.2).
Used in the proof of Theorem 1.4 to pass from δ-perturbed systems to the limiting case dr=1.
standard math Freidlin's theorem that the viscosity solution of the Hamilton-Jacobi equation equals max(J,0) when J satisfies the Freidlin condition.
Invoked in Lemma 3.7 to identify w1 from the variational formula J1.

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We establish spreading properties of the Lotka-Volterra competition-diffusion system. When the initial data vanish on a right half-line, we derive the exact spreading speeds and prove the convergence to homogeneous equilibrium states between successive invasion fronts. Our method is inspired by the geometric optics approach for Fisher-KPP equation due to Freidlin, Evans and Souganidis. Our main result settles an open question raised by Shigesada et al. in 1997, and shows that one of the species spreads to the right with a nonlocally pulled front.

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**Figure 1.** Asymptotic behaviors of the solutions to (1) with a = 0.6, b = 0.5, r = 1, and d = 1.5 in (a), d = 1 in (b), d = 0.5 in (c), where the initial data are chosen as u(0, x) = χ[−1000,0] and v(0, x) = χ[−20,0]. value ci . Thus the formulas of c1, c2, c3 provided in Theorem 1.3 are confirmed by [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_1.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 2.** The value of x1 (t)/t, x2 (t)/t, x3 (t)/t as d=1.5 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 200 time t -12 -10 -8 -6 -4 -2 0 2 4 x 1 (t)/t x 2 (t)/t x 3 (t)/t 2.4452 1.3695 -1.7214 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_2.png] view at source ↗

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