Generalized Transition Waves and Their Properties

In this paper, we generalize the usual notions of waves, fronts, and propagation speeds in a very general setting. These new notions, which cover all usual situations, involve uniform limits, with respect to the geodesic distance, to a family of hypersurfaces that are parametrized by time. We prove the existence of new such waves for some time‐dependent reaction‐diffusion equations, as well as general intrinsic properties, some monotonicity properties, and some uniqueness results for almost‐planar fronts. The classification results, which are obtained under some appropriate assumptions, show the robustness of our general definitions. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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