Fast propagation for KPP equations with slowly decaying initial conditions

Journal of Differential Equations

Volumn 249, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1726-1745

  Hamel, François ^a   Roques, Lionel ^b  

^a INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE DE FRANCE   (France)

^b INRA   (France)

Author keywords

Accelerating fronts; Initial data; Reaction diffusion equations; Slow decay

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955574423     PISSN: 00220396     EISSN: 10902732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jde.2010.06.025     Document Type: Article

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