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Article Dans Une Revue Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations Année : 2015

Transition fronts for periodic bistable reaction-diffusion equations

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This paper is concerned with the existence and qualitative properties of transition fronts for spatially periodic reaction-diffusion equations with bistable nonlinearities. The notion of transition fronts connecting two stable steady states generalizes the standard notion of pulsating fronts. In this paper, we prove that the time-global solutions in the class of transition fronts share some common features. In particular, we establish a uniform estimate for the mean speed of transition fronts, independently of the spatial scale. Under the a priori existence of a pulsating front with nonzero speed or under a more general condition guaranteeing the existence of such a pulsating front, we show that transition fronts are reduced to pulsating fronts, and thus are unique up to shift in time. On the other hand, when the spatial period is large, we also obtain the existence of a new type of transition fronts which are not pulsating fronts. This example, which is the first one in periodic media, shows that even in periodic media, the notion of generalized transition fronts is needed to describe the set of solutions connecting two stable steady states.
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hal-01086125 , version 1 (25-11-2014)

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Weiwei Ding, François Hamel, Xiao-Qiang Zhao. Transition fronts for periodic bistable reaction-diffusion equations. Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations, 2015, 54, pp.2517-2551. ⟨hal-01086125⟩
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