Traveling waves for delayed non-local diffusion equations with crossing-monostability

This paper is concerned with the traveling waves for a class of delayed non-local diffusion equations with crossing-monostability. Based on constructing two associated auxiliary delayed non-local diffusion equations with quasi-monotonicity and a profile set in a suitable Banach space using the traveling wave fronts of the auxiliary equations, the existence of traveling waves is proved by Schauder's fixed point theorem. The result implies that the traveling waves of the delayed non-local diffusion equations with crossing-monostability are persistent for all values of the delay tau >= 0. (C) 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.