Organisms modulate their fitness in heterogeneous environments by dispersing. Prior work shows that there is selection against 'unconditional' dispersal in spatially heterogeneous environments. 'Unconditional' means individuals disperse at a rate independent of their location. We prove that if within-patch fitness varies spatially and between two values temporally, then there is selection for u...

We consider the initial value problem for some nonlinear hyperbolic and dispersive systems in one space dimension. Combining the classical energy method and the smoothing estimates for the Airy equation, we guarantee the time local well-posedness for this system. We also discuss the extension of our results to more general hyperbolic-dispersive system.

We present a way to deal with dispersion-dominated “shock-type” transition in the absence of completely integrable structure for the systems that one may characterize as strictly hyperbolic regularized by a small amount of dispersion. The analysis is performed by assuming that, the dispersive shock transition between two different constant states can be modelled by an expansion fan solution of ...

We study dispersive properties of one-dimensional surface waterwaves under surface tension, based on the formulation of the problem as a nonlinear dispersive equation coupled with a transport-type equation. We establish a dispersion estimate on time scales depending on the size of the frequencies. We infer that, if s is large enough, then a solution u of the dispersive equation satisfies local-...

We study a dispersive counterpart of the classical gas dynamics problem of the interaction of a shock wave with a counter-propagating simple rarefaction wave often referred to as the shock wave refraction. The dispersive shock wave (DSW) refraction due to its head-on collision with the centred rarefaction wave (RW) is considered in the frameworks of the one-dimensional defocusing nonlinear Schr...

In condensed matter systems, zero-dimensional or one-dimensional Majorana modes can be realized respectively as the end and edge states of two-dimensional topological superconductors. this top-down approach, $(d\ensuremath{-}1)$-dimensional are obtained boundary a topologically nontrivial $d$-dimensional bulk. bottom-up approach instead, in system continuous limit periodic lattice coupled modes...

The possibility of finite-time, dispersive blow up for nonlinear equations of Schrödinger type is revisited. This mathematical phenomena is one of the possible explanations for oceanic and optical rogue waves. In dimension one, the possibility of dispersive blow up for nonlinear Schrödinger equations already appears in [9]. In the present work, the existing results are extended in several ways....