Special Session 13: Propagation Phenomena in Reaction-Diffusion Systems

Unbounded traveling wave solutions for reaction-diffusion equations

Ryo Ito
Kanagawa University
Japan
Co-Author(s):    Hirokazu Ninomiya
Abstract:
We consider unbounded traveling wave solutions for one dimensional reaction-diffusion equations. Main interest of this talk is existence of unbounded traveling wave solutions and the relation between unbounded and bounded traveling wave solutions. We prove that there exists a threshold speed, called the minimal speed, that separates the existence and non-existence of unbounded wave solutions under few technical assumptions for nonlinearity, especially it includes bistable type nonlinearity, and we reconsider min-max type characterization of the threshold speeds.