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Asymptotic one-dimensional symmetry for the Fisher-KPP equation

Analysis of PDEs 2022-07-14 v2

Abstract

Let uu be a solution of the Fisher-KPP equation tu=Δu+f(u),t>0, xRN. \partial_t u=\Delta u+f(u),\quad t>0,\ x\in\mathbb{R}^N. We address the following question: does uu become locally planar as t+t\to+\infty ? Namely, does u(tn,xn+)u(t_n,x_n+\cdot) converge locally uniformly, up to subsequences, towards a one-dimensional function, for any sequence ((tn,xn))nN((t_n,x_n))_{n\in\mathbb{N}} in (0,+)×RN(0,+\infty)\times\mathbb{R}^N such that tn+t_n\to+\infty as n+n\to+\infty ? This question is in the spirit of a conjecture of De Giorgi for stationary solutions of Allen-Cahn equations. The answer depends on the initial datum u0u_0 of uu. It is known to be affirmative when the support of u0u_0 is bounded or when it lies between two parallel half-spaces. Instead, the answer is negative when the support of u0u_0 is "V-shaped". We prove here that uu is asymptotically locally planar when the support of u0u_0 is a convex set (satisfying in addition a uniform interior ball condition), or, more generally, when it is at finite Hausdorff distance from a convex set. We actually derive the result under an even more general geometric hypothesis on the support of u0u_0. We recover in particular the aforementioned results known in the literature. We further characterize the set of directions in which uu is asymptotically locally planar, and we show that the asymptotic profiles are monotone. Our results apply in particular when the support of u0u_0 is the subgraph of a function with vanishing global mean.

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@article{arxiv.2207.05147,
  title  = {Asymptotic one-dimensional symmetry for the Fisher-KPP equation},
  author = {François Hamel and Luca Rossi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.05147},
  year   = {2022}
}

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arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2105.08344