Nonmonotone invariant manifolds in the Nagylaki–Crow model

We use a change of dynamical variables to prove, subject to certain conditions on the parameters, that a nonmonotone invariant manifold exists and is the graph of a convex function for the planar Nagylaki–Crow fertility–mortality model from population genetics with n = 2. Our results are obtained without the common assumption that fertilities or death rates are additive, and are not restricted to the case that the model is competitive in the new coordinates. We also provide numerical examples demonstrating that the manifold need not be the graph of a convex function, smooth, unique or globally attracting, and that the model exhibits a sequence of nonmonotone manifolds similar to those studied by Hirsch for competitive Kolmogorov systems (Hirsch 1988)

Soliton-like solutions based on geometrically nonlinear Cosserat micropolar elasticity

The Cosserat model generalises an elastic material taking into account the possible microstructure of the elements of the material continuum. In particular, within the Cosserat model the structured material point is rigid and can only experience microrotations, which is also known as micropolar elasticity. We present the geometrically nonlinear theory taking into account all possible interaction terms between the elastic and microelastic structures. This is achieved by considering the irreducible pieces of the deformation gradient and of the dislocation curvature tensor. In addition we also consider the so-called Cosserat coupling term. In this setting we seek soliton type solutions assuming small elastic displacements, however, we allow the material points to experience full rotations which are not assumed to be small. By choosing a particular ansatz we are able to reduce the system of equations to a sine–Gordon type equation which is known to have soliton solutions