Validity of the Brunet-Derrida formula for the speed of pulled fronts with a cutoff
Pattern Formation and Solitons
2015-04-28 v1
Abstract
We establish rigorous upper and lower bounds for the speed of pulled fronts with a cutoff. We show that the Brunet-Derrida formula corresponds to the leading order expansion in the cut-off parameter of both the upper and lower bounds. For sufficiently large cut-off parameter the Brunet-Derrida formula lies outside the allowed band determined from the bounds. If nonlinearities are neglected the upper and lower bounds coincide and are the exact linear speed for all values of the cut-off parameter.
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@article{arxiv.0706.3671,
title = {Validity of the Brunet-Derrida formula for the speed of pulled fronts with a cutoff},
author = {R. D. Benguria and M. C. Depassier and M. Loss},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0706.3671},
year = {2015}
}
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8 pages, 3 figures