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Effect of Noise on Front Propagation in Reaction-Diffusion equations of KPP type

Probability 2009-02-20 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We consider reaction-diffusion equations of KPP type in one spatial dimension, perturbed by a Fisher-Wright white noise, under the assumption of uniqueness in distribution. Examples include the randomly perturbed Fisher-KPP equations tu=x2u+u(1u)+ϵu(1u)W˙, \partial_t u = \partial_x^2 u + u(1-u) + \epsilon \sqrt{u(1-u)}\dot W, and tu=x2u+u(1u)+ϵuW˙, \partial_t u = \partial_x^2 u + u(1-u) + \epsilon \sqrt{u}\dot W, where W˙=W˙(t,x)\dot W= \dot W(t,x) is a space-time white noise. We prove the Brunet-Derrida conjecture that the speed of traveling fronts is asymptotically 2π2logϵ22 2-\pi^2 |\log \epsilon^2|^{-2} up to a factor of order (loglogϵ)logϵ3 (\log|\log\epsilon|)|\log\epsilon|^{-3}.

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@article{arxiv.0902.3423,
  title  = {Effect of Noise on Front Propagation in Reaction-Diffusion equations of KPP type},
  author = {Carl Mueller and Leonid Mytnik and Jeremy Quastel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0902.3423},
  year   = {2009}
}