Propagation Phenomena for Nonlocal Dispersal Equations in Exterior Domains

Abstract: This paper is concerned with the spatial propagation of nonlocal dispersal equations with bistable or multistable nonlinearity in exterior domains. We obtain the existence and uniqueness of an entire solution which behaves like a planar wave front as time goes to negative infinity. In particular, some disturbances on the profile of the entire solution happen as the entire solution comes to the interior domain. But the disturbances disappear as the entire solution is far away from the interior domain. Furthermore, we prove that the solution can gradually recover its planar wave profile and continue to propagate in the same direction as time goes to positive infinity for compact convex interior domain. Our work generalizes the local (Laplace) diffusion results obtained by Berestycki et al. (2009) to the nonlocal dispersal setting by using new known Liouville results and Lipschitz continuity of entire solutions due to Li et al. (2010).