On gradients of approximate travelling waves for generalised KPP equations (Q4337375)

The following generalized KPP equation on \(\mathbb{R}^n\) is considered: \[ {\partial\over\partial t} u^\mu(t, x)={1\over 2} \mu^2\Delta u^\mu(t, x)+ {1\over\mu^2} c(u^\mu(t,x)) u^\mu(t,x),\;u^\mu(0,x)= T_0(x)\exp\Biggl(-{S_0(x)\over\mu^2}\Biggr). \] The author studies the behaviour of the space derivatives \(\nabla u^\mu\) of the approximate travelling waves. He obtains the estimate of \(\mu^2|\nabla \log u^\mu(t, x)|\) and proves that \(|\nabla u^\mu(t, s)|\) is exponentially small on the crest and trough of the travelling wave. The paper is a continuation of the work by \textit{M. Freidlin} [Proc. Int. Congr. Math. Phys. (eds. \textit{M. Mebkhout} and \textit{R. Sénéor}), Singapore, World Scientific, 470-481 (1987; Zbl 0723.00045)] in applying the logarithmic transformation to the nonlinear generalized KPP equation, which transforms the generalized KPP equation to a nonlinear Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation.