Coexistence of a pulse and multiple spikes and transition layers in the standing waves of a reaction-diffusion system

Journal of Differential Equations

Volumn 205, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 77-155

  Zhang, Fu ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b University of Houston   (United States)

Author keywords

Pulse; Reaction diffusion system; Spikes; Standing waves; Topological shooting arguments; Transition layers

Indexed keywords

EID: 4344706960     PISSN: 00220396     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jde.2004.06.017     Document Type: Article

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