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Travelling Waves for a Certain First-Order Coupled PDE System


 
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1. Title Title of document Travelling Waves for a Certain First-Order Coupled PDE System
 
2. Creator Author's name, affiliation, country Owen D. Lyne; University of Nottingham
 
3. Subject Discipline(s) Mathematics
 
3. Subject Keyword(s) Travelling waves, Martingales, Branching processses
 
3. Subject Subject classification 35L35; 60J27; 60G44
 
4. Description Abstract This paper concentrates on a particular first-order coupled PDE system. It provides both a detailed treatment of the existence and uniqueness of monotone travelling waves to various equilibria, by differential-equation theory and by probability theory and a treatment of the corresponding hyperbolic initial-value problem, by analytic methods.

The initial-value problem is studied using characteristics to show existence and uniqueness of a bounded solution for bounded initial data (subject to certain smoothness conditions). The concept of weak solutions to partial differential equations is used to rigorously examine bounded initial data with jump discontinuities.

For the travelling wave problem the differential-equation treatment makes use of a shooting argument and explicit calculations of the eigenvectors of stability matrices.

The probabilistic treatment is careful in its proofs of martingale (as opposed to merely local-martingale) properties. A modern change-of-measure technique is used to obtain the best lower bound on the speed of the monotone travelling wave --- with Heaviside initial conditions the solution converges to an approximate travelling wave of that speed (the solution tends to one ahead of the wave-front and to zero behind it). Waves to different equilibria are shown to be related by Doob h-transforms. Large-deviation theory provides heuristic links between alternative descriptions of minimum wave speeds, rigorous algebraic proofs of which are provided.
 
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7. Date (YYYY-MM-DD) 2000-08-17
 
8. Type Status & genre Peer-reviewed Article
 
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10. Identifier Uniform Resource Identifier http://ejp.ejpecp.org/article/view/70
 
10. Identifier Digital Object Identifier 10.1214/EJP.v5-70
 
11. Source Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) Electronic Journal of Probability; Vol 5
 
12. Language English=en en
 
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