Effect of noise on front propagation in reaction-diffusion equations of KPP type

Inventiones Mathematicae

Volumn 184, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 405-453

  Mueller, Carl ^a   Mytnik, Leonid ^b   Quastel, Jeremy ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Random traveling fronts; Reaction diffusion equation; Stochastic partial differential equations; White noise

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955048916     PISSN: 00209910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00222-010-0292-5     Document Type: Article

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