English

Uniqueness and nonuniqueness of fronts for degenerate diffusion-convection reaction equations

Analysis of PDEs 2020-08-11 v2

Abstract

We consider a scalar parabolic equation in one spatial dimension. The equation is constituted by a convective term, a reaction term with one or two equilibria, and a positive diffusivity which can however vanish. We prove the existence and several properties of traveling-wave solutions to such an equation. In particular, we provide a sharp estimate for the minimal speed of the profiles and improve previous results about the regularity of wavefronts. Moreover, we show the existence of an infinite number of semi-wavefronts with the same speed.

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@article{arxiv.2007.02892,
  title  = {Uniqueness and nonuniqueness of fronts for degenerate diffusion-convection reaction equations},
  author = {Diego Berti and Andrea Corli and Luisa Malaguti},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.02892},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

35 pages, 10 figures; submitted version. Revision with exposition changes, typos fixed and assumption (6.3) added to Propositions 6.1 and 8.2