Stability of traveling waves for degenerate systems of reaction diffusion equations

Indiana University Mathematics Journal

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 443-472

  Ghazaryan, Anna ^a,b   Latushkin, Yuri ^c   Schecter, Stephen ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^d NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

C0 semigroup; Exponential dichotomy; Fitzhugh Nagumo; Front; Greiner Spectral Mapping Theorem; Linearly stable; Pulse; Spectrally stable

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861369308     PISSN: 00222518     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1512/iumj.2011.60.4069     Document Type: Article

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