Nonlinear stability of spatially-periodic traveling-wave solutions of systems of reaction-diffusion equations (Q719439)

The authors consider stability of periodic travelling waves (wavetrains) in systems of reaction diffusion equations. Under spectral stability assumptions they prove nonlinear stability in the sense that perturbations that are sufficiently small in \(L^1\cap H^k\) decay in \(H^k\) as \(t^{- 1/4}\). Towards this they construct (by integral representations) suitable co-moving frames (which decay) that enjoy \(L^p\) estimates. The approach appears to provide an alternative and extension to convection of the classical results of G. Schneider.