Stability of traveling waves for degenerate systems of reaction diffusion equations (Q2898362)

The authors concern in this paper is to derive information about the spectrum of the semigroup generated by the linear operator resulting in the linearization of a degenerate reaction diffusion system at a traveling front, from the spectral information about the spectrum of the linear operator itself. No compactness assumption is required. This result is new particularly for fronts. The result is used to complete existing proofs of stability of traveling fronts for the Fitzhugh-Nagumo equation. The use of the Greiner Spectral Mapping Theorem for continuous semigroups is a feature of their approach.