Travelling fronts and entire solutions of the Fisher-KPP equation in ℝN

Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis

Volumn 157, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 91-163

  Hamel, François ^a   Nadirashvili, Nikolaï ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

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EID: 0035591737     PISSN: 00039527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00004238     Document Type: Article

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