Pulsating fronts for bistable on average reaction-diffusion equations in a time periodic environment

Benjamin Contri (1, 2)

1 AMU - Aix Marseille Université
2 I2M - Institut de Mathématiques de Marseille

This paper is devoted to reaction-diffusion equations with bistable nonlinearities depending periodically on time. These equations admit two linearly stable states. However, the reaction terms may not be bistable at every time. These may well be a periodic combination of standard bistable and monostable nonlinearities. We are interested in a particular class of solutions, namely pulsating fronts. We prove the existence of such solutions in the case of small time periods of the nonlinearity and in the case of small perturbations of a nonlinearity for which we know there exist pulsating fronts. We also study uniqueness, monotonicity and stability of pulsating fronts.

Mots clés: Time periodicity; Pulsating front; Bistable reaction diffusion equation

Domaines: Equations aux dérivées partielles [math.AP]

Benjamin Contri. Pulsating fronts for bistable on average reaction-diffusion equations in a time periodic environment. 2015. ⟨hal-01178306⟩