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Optimal location of resources for biased movement of species: the 1D case. (English) Zbl 1378.49055

Summary: In this paper, we investigate an optimal design problem motivated by some issues arising in population dynamics. In a nutshell, we aim at determining the optimal shape of a region occupied by resources for maximizing the survival ability of a species in a given box, and we consider the general case of Robin boundary conditions on its boundary. Mathematically, this issue can be modeled with the help of an extremal indefinite weight linear eigenvalue problem. The optimal spatial arrangement is obtained by minimizing the positive principal eigenvalue with respect to the weight, under an \(L^1\) constraint standing for limitation of the total amount of resources. The specificity of such a problem rests upon the presence of nonlinear functions of the weight in both the numerator and denominator of the Rayleigh quotient. By using adapted rearrangement procedures, a well-chosen change of variables, as well as necessary optimality conditions, we completely solve this optimization problem in the unidimensional case by showing first that every minimizer is unimodal and bang-bang. This leads us to investigate a finite-dimensional optimization problem. This allows us to show in particular that every minimizer is (up to additive constants) the characteristic function of three possible domains: an interval that sticks on the boundary of the box, an interval that is symmetrically located at the middle of the box, or, for a precise value of the Robin coefficient, all intervals of a given fixed length.

MSC:

49R05 Variational methods for eigenvalues of operators
49J15 Existence theories for optimal control problems involving ordinary differential equations
49K20 Optimality conditions for problems involving partial differential equations
34B09 Boundary eigenvalue problems for ordinary differential equations
34L15 Eigenvalues, estimation of eigenvalues, upper and lower bounds of ordinary differential operators
49J30 Existence of optimal solutions belonging to restricted classes (Lipschitz controls, bang-bang controls, etc.)
92D25 Population dynamics (general)
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