Stability of travelling fronts of the Fisher-KPP equation in \(\mathbb {R}^{N}\) (Q733657)

The paper is devoted to the stability of the travelling fronts of the semilinear parabolic equation \[ u_t = \Delta u + f(u), \quad 0 < u(x, t) < 1,\;x\in \mathbb R^N,\;t\in \mathbb R, \] where the nonlinearity \(f\) is a concave function of class \(C^2\) in \([0,1]\) and satisfies the conditions \[ f(0)=f(1)=0,\;f'(0)>0, \;f'(1)<0, f(u)>0 \] for all \(u\in [0,1]\). A typical example of such a function is the quadratic nonlinearity \(f(u)= u(l-u)\) considered by Fisher, and Kolmogorov, Petrovsky and Piscunov. The considered equation arises in various biological models, such as population dynamics and gene developments. Recently, Hamel and Nadirashvili proved that there are infinite-dimensional manifolds of (nonplanar) travelling fronts for the Fisher-KPP equation in \(\mathbb R^N\). In this paper we study the stability of these travelling fronts of the Fisher-KPP equation in \(\mathbb R^N\). The author of the paper proves that all (planar or non planar) of the travelling fronts are stable under the condition that the perturbations have compact supports. He also considers the case of the perturbations without compact supports and proves the stability of the travelling fronts under perturbations that decay exponentially with an appropriate rate.