Spectral Stability of Monotone Traveling Fronts for Reaction Diffusion-Degenerate Nagumo Equations


Por: Leyva J.F., Lopez Rios, Luis F., Plaza, Ramon G.

Publicada: 1 ene 2022
Categoría: Mathematics (miscellaneous)

Resumen:
This paper establishes the spectral stability of monotone traveling front solutions for reaction-diffusion equations where the reaction function is of Nagumo (or bistable) type and with diffusivities which are density dependent and degenerate at zero (one of the equilibrium points of the reaction). Spectral stability is understood as the property in which the spectrum of the linearized operator around the wave, acting on an exponentially weighted space, is contained in the complex half plane with non-positive real part. The degenerate fronts studied in this paper travel with positive speed above a threshold value and connect the (diffusion-degenerate) zero state with the unstable equilibrium point of the reaction function. In this case, the degeneracy of the diffusion coefficient is responsible of the loss of hyperbolicity of the asymptotic coefficient matrices of the spectral problem at one of the end points, precluding the application of standard techniques to locate the essential spectrum. This difficulty is overcome with a suitable partition of the spectrum, a generalized convergence of operators technique, the analysis of singular (or Weyl) sequences, and the use of energy estimates. The monotonicity of the fronts, as well as detailed descriptions of the decay structure of eigenfunctions on a case-by-case basis, are key ingredients to show that all traveling fronts under consideration are spectrally stable in a suitably chosen exponentially weighted L2 energy space.

Filiaciones:
Leyva J.F.:
 Facultad de Ciencias de la Computación, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Av. San Claudio y 14 Sur, Ciudad Universitaria, Puebla, Puebla, C.P. 72570, Mexico

Lopez Rios, Luis F.:
 Instituto de Investigaciones en Matemáticas Aplicadas y en Sistemas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Circuito Escolar s/n, Ciudad Universitaria, Ciudad de México, C.P. 04510, Mexico

Plaza, Ramon G.:
 Instituto de Investigaciones en Matemáticas Aplicadas y en Sistemas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Circuito Escolar s/n, Ciudad Universitaria, Ciudad de México, C.P. 04510, Mexico
ISSN: 00222518





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