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We demonstrate that waves in distinct layers of a neuronal network can become phase-locked by common spatiotemporal noise. This phenomenon is studied for stationary bumps, traveling waves, and breathers. A weak noise expansion is used to…

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A recent paper of Melbourne & Stuart, A note on diffusion limits of chaotic skew product flows, Nonlinearity 24 (2011) 1361-1367, gives a rigorous proof of convergence of a fast-slow deterministic system to a stochastic differential…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-06-15 Georg A. Gottwald , Ian Melbourne

We use a geometric approach to prove the existence of smooth travelling wave solutions of a nonlinear diffusion-reaction equation with logistic kinetics and a convex nonlinear diffusivity function which changes sign twice in our domain of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-17 Yifei Li , Peter van Heijster , Robert Marangell , Matthew J. Simpson

We study the spectral stability of smooth, small-amplitude periodic traveling wave solutions of the Novikov equation, which is a Camassa-Holm type equation with cubic nonlinearities. Specifically, we investigate the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-06 Brett Ehrman , Mathew A. Johnson , Stéphane Lafortune

Using the relation of a set of nonlinear Langevin equations with reaction-diffusion processes, we note the existence of a maximal strength of the noise for the stochastic traveling wave solutions of these equations. Its determination is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Robi Peschanski

The periodic standing-wave method for binary inspiral computes the exact numerical solution for periodic binary motion with standing gravitational waves, and uses it as an approximation to slow binary inspiral with outgoing waves. Important…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Zeferino Andrade , Christopher Beetle , Alexey Blinov , Benjamin Bromley , Lior M. Burko , Maria Cranor , Robert Owen , Richard H. Price

This paper deals with front propagation dynamics of monostable equations with nonlocal dispersal in spatially periodic habitats. In the authors' earlier works, it is shown that a general spatially periodic monostable equation with nonlocal…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-12-09 Wenxian Shen , Aijun Zhang

We give sharp regularity results for the solution to the stochastic wave equation with linear fractional-colored noise. We apply these results in order to establish upper and lower bound for the hitting probabilities of the solution in…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-03-20 Jorge Clarke De La Cerda , Ciprian Tudor

Travelling wave solutions of reaction-diffusion equations are widely used to model the spatial spread of populations and other phenomena in biology and physics. In this article, we reinterpret the classical variational principle approach…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-19 Rebecca M. Crossley , Carles Falco , Ruth E. Baker

This paper studies the nonlinear stochastic partial differential equation of fractional orders both in space and time variables: \[ \left(\partial^\beta+\frac{\nu}{2}(-\Delta)^{\alpha/2}\right)u(t,x) =…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-09-28 Le Chen , Yaozhong Hu , David Nualart

We determine the range of Hurst parameters that provide the necessary and sufficient conditions for the solvability, in $L^2(\Omega)$, of the stochastic wave equation: $ \frac{\partial^2 }{\partial t^2}u(t,x) =\Delta u(t,x)+\dot{W}(t,x)$,…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-12-09 Shuhui Liu , Yaozhong Hu , Xiong Wang

A parameter estimation problem is considered for a one-dimensional stochastic wave equation driven by additive space-time Gaussian white noise. The estimator is of spectral type and utilizes a finite number of the spatial Fourier…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-10-02 W. Liu , S. V. Lototsky

We prove the existence and uniqueness, for wave speeds sufficiently large, of monotone traveling wave solutions connecting stable to unstable spatial equilibria for a class of $N$-dimensional lattice differential equations with…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2010-06-14 Aaron Hoffman , Benjamin Kennedy

In this work we revisit a classical problem of traveling waves in a damped Frenkel-Kontorova lattice driven by a constant external force. We compute these solutions as fixed points of a nonlinear map and obtain the corresponding kinetic…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-09-04 A. Vainchtein , J. Cuevas-Maraver , P. G. Kevrekidis , H. Xu

We modify the approach of Burton and Toland [Comm. Pure Appl. Math. (2011)] to show the existence of periodic surface water waves with vorticity in order that it becomes suited to a stability analysis. This is achieved by enlarging the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-09-25 B. Buffoni , G. R. Burton

Solutions to the stochastic wave equation on the unit sphere are approximated by spectral methods. Strong, weak, and almost sure convergence rates for the proposed numerical schemes are provided and shown to depend only on the smoothness of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-06 David Cohen , Annika Lang

Traveling wave solutions, in the form $u(x,t)=f(x+ct)$, to the generalized Burgers-Fisher equation $$ \partial_tu=u_{xx}+k(u^n)_x+u^p-u^q, \quad (x,t)\in\mathbb{R}\times(0,\infty), $$ with $n\geq2$, $p>q\geq1$ and $k>0$, are classified with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Razvan Gabriel Iagar , Ariel Sánchez

Using a new method of monotone iteration of a pair of smooth lower- and upper-solutions, the traveling wave solutions of the classical Lotka-Volterra system are shown to exist for a family of wave speeds. Such constructed upper and lower…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-09-10 Anthony W Leung , Xiaojie Hou , Wei Feng

We present a mathematical approach that simplifies the theoretical treatment of electromagnetic localization in random media and leads to closed form analytical solutions. Starting with the assumption that the dielectric permittivity of the…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Dimitris Dimitropoulos , Bahram Jalali

Stochastic processes associated with traveling wave solutions of the sine-Gordon equation are presented. The structure of the forward Kolmogorov equation as a conservation law is essential in the construction and so is the traveling wave…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2009-01-06 Tetsu Yajima , Hideaki Ujino