Singular integral equations with applications to travelling waves for doubly nonlinear diffusion

Abstract: We consider a family of singular Volterra integral equations that appear in the study of monotone travelling-wave solutions for a family of diffusion-convection-reaction equations involving the $p$-Laplacian operator. Our results extend the ones due to B.\,Gilding for the case $p=2$. The fact that $p\neq2$ modifies the nature of the singularity in the integral equation, and introduces the need to develop some new tools for the analysis. The results for the integral equation are then used to study the existence and properties of travelling-wave solutions for doubly nonlinear diffusion-reaction equations in terms of the constitutive functions of the problem.