On the validity of formal asymptotic expansions in Allen-Cahn equation and FitzHugh-Nagumo system with generic initial data

DOI10.3934/DCDSB.2012.17.1639zbMATH Open1250.35124arXiv1111.3540OpenAlexW2963964174MaRDI QIDQ449259FDOQ449259

Authors: Matthieu Alfaro, Hiroshi Matano 

Publication date: 12 September 2012

Published in: Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems. Series B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Formal asymptotic expansions have long been used to study the singularly perturbed Allen-Cahn type equations and reaction-diffusion systems, including in particular the FitzHugh-Nagumo system. Despite their successful role, it has been largely unclear whether or not such expansions really represent the actual profile of solutions with rather general initial data. By combining our earlier result and known properties of eternal solutions of the Allen-Cahn equation, we prove validity of the principal term of the formal expansions for a large class of solutions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1111.3540

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zbMATH Keywords

reaction-diffusion systemfront profilevalidity of the principal term

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Singular perturbations in context of PDEs (35B25) Asymptotic expansions of solutions to PDEs (35C20) Initial-boundary value problems for second-order parabolic systems (35K51) Reaction-diffusion equations (35K57) Semilinear parabolic equations (35K58) Free boundary problems for PDEs (35R35)

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