Traveling Wave Solutions in a Reaction-Diffusion Model for Criminal ...

Recall that g ′ (0) = 0 and so for the steady state (0, 0) the eigenvalues are
It is useful to define the functional
As k = − g(1)α
c
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λ1 = 1
c , λ± = −c ± √ c2 + 4
.
2
Q(λ, k) :=
> 0 then we see that indeed λ > µ.
λ − 1
λ 2
+ cλ − 1 − k. (60)
c
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