Harris's method for non-conservative periodic semiflows and application to some non-local PDEs

Abstract

In this paper we propose some Harris-like criteria in order to study the long time behavior of general positive and periodic semiflows. These criteria allow us to obtain new existence results of principal eigenelements, and their exponential attractiveness. We present applications to two biological models in a space-time varying environment: a non local selection-mutation equation and a growth-fragmentation equation. The particularity of this article is to study some inhomogeneous problems that are periodic in time, as it appears for instance when the environment changes, due for instance to the seasonal cycle or circadian rhythms.

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