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Limiting Hamilton-Jacobi Equation for the Large Scale Asymptotics of a Subdiffusion Jump-Renewal Equation

Analysis of PDEs 2019-12-12 v2

Abstract

Subdiffusive motion takes place at a much slower timescale than diffusive motion. As a preliminary step to studying reaction-subdiffusion pulled fronts, we consider here the hyperbolic limit (t,x)(t/ε,x/ε)(t,x) \to (t/\varepsilon, x/\varepsilon) of an age-structured equation describing the subdiffusive motion of, e.g., some protein inside a biological cell. Solutions of the rescaled equations are known to satisfy a Hamilton-Jacobi equation in the formal limit ε0\varepsilon \to 0. In this work we derive uniform Lipschitz estimates, and establish the convergence towards the viscosity solution of the limiting Hamilton-Jacobi equation. The two main obstacles overcome in this work are the non-existence of an integrable stationary measure, and the importance of memory terms in subdiffusion.

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@article{arxiv.1609.06933,
  title  = {Limiting Hamilton-Jacobi Equation for the Large Scale Asymptotics of a Subdiffusion Jump-Renewal Equation},
  author = {Vincent Calvez and Pierre Gabriel and Álvaro Mateos González},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.06933},
  year   = {2019}
}