A variational problem associated with the minimal speed of travelling waves for spatially periodic reaction-diffusion equations

Transactions of the American Mathematical Society

Volumn 362, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 5605-5633

  Liang, Xing ^a   Lin, Xiaotao ^b   Matano, Hiroshi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

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EID: 77954620658     PISSN: 00029947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9947-2010-04931-1     Document Type: Article

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