Traveling fronts in space-time periodic media (Q843177)

The author deals with the existence of pulsating traveling fonts for the equation \[ \partial _tu-\nabla \cdot (A(t,xt) \nabla u) +q(t,x)\cdot \nabla u=f(t,x,u). \] The author supposes that the diffusion matrix \(A\), the advection term \(q\) and the reaction term \(f\) are periodic in \(t\) and \(x\) and proves that there exists a half-line of speeds \(\left[ c^{**},+\infty \right) \) associated with pulsating traveling fronts. Moreover, the author proves that there exists some speed \(c^{*}\) associated to some pulsating traveling front such that there exists no pulsating traveling front of speed \(c<c^{*}\), even if \(f \) is not KPP type. If \(f\) satisfies a KPP type assumption, then \(c^{*}=c^{**} \) and the author characterizes the minimal speed \(c^{*}\). In addition the author proves that if \(s\mapsto f\left( t,x,s\right) /s\) is nonincreasing, then there exist some Lipschitz continuous pulsating traveling fronts of speed \(c\) if and only if \(c\geq c^{*}.\)