Existence of bistable waves for a nonlocal and nonmonotone reaction-diffusion equation

Reaction-diffusion equation with a bistable nonlocal nonlinearity is considered in the case where the reaction term is not quasi-monotone. For this equation, the existence of travelling waves is proved by the Leray-Schauder method based on the topological degree for elliptic operators in unbounded domains and a priori estimates of solutions in properly chosen weighted spaces. © Royal Society of Edinburgh 2019