Non-existence of localized travelling waves with non-zero speed in single reaction-diffusion equations
Author(s) -
Masaharu Taniguchi,
WeiMing Ni,
Yong Jung Kim
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
discrete and continuous dynamical systems
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.289
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1553-5231
pISSN - 1078-0947
DOI - 10.3934/dcds.2013.33.3707
Subject(s) - zero (linguistics) , traveling wave , reaction–diffusion system , diffusion , wave speed , mathematical analysis , physics , interval (graph theory) , mathematics , zero point energy , mathematical physics , combinatorics , quantum mechanics , philosophy , linguistics
Assume a single reaction-diffusion equation has zero
as an asymptotically stable stationary point.
Then we prove that there exist no localized travelling waves
with non-zero speed.
If
$[\liminf_{|x|\to\infty}u(x),\limsup_{|x|\to\infty}u(x)]$
is included
in an open interval of zero
that does not include other stationary points,
then the speed has to be zero or the travelling profile $u$
has to be identically zero.
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