Linear spreading speeds from nonlinear resonant interaction

DOI10.1088/1361-6544/AA6C74MaRDI QIDQ5348113zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Grégory Faye, Matt Holzer, Arnd Scheel

Publication date 14 August 2017

Published in Nonlinearity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.05757

zbMATH Keywords

amplitude equationsneural fieldsresonancesspreading speedtraveling fronts

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Pattern formations in context of PDEs (35B36) Traveling wave solutions (35C07) Reaction-diffusion equations (35K57)

Abstract: We identify a new mechanism for propagation into unstable states in spatially extended systems, that is based on resonant interaction in the leading edge of invasion fronts. Such resonant invasion speeds can be determined solely based on the complex linear dispersion relation at the unstable equilibrium, but rely on the presence of a nonlinear term that facilitates the resonant coupling. We prove that these resonant speeds give the correct invasion speed in a simple example, we show that fronts with speeds slower than the resonant speed are unstable, and corroborate our speed criterion numerically in a variety of model equations, including a nonlocal scalar neural field model.

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