Front propagation in Fisher-KPP equations with fractional diffusion

We study in this note the Fisher-KPP equation where the Laplacian is replaced by the generator of a Feller semigroup with slowly decaying kernel, an important example being the fractional Laplacian. Contrary to what happens in the standard Laplacian case, where the stable state invades the unstable...

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Autores: Cabré Vilagut, Xavier|||0000-0001-5682-3135, Roquejoffre, Jean-Michel
Tipo de recurso: informe técnico
Fecha de publicación:2009
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/11076
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/11076
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Differential equations
Equacions diferencials
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Matemàtiques i estadística
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Sumario:We study in this note the Fisher-KPP equation where the Laplacian is replaced by the generator of a Feller semigroup with slowly decaying kernel, an important example being the fractional Laplacian. Contrary to what happens in the standard Laplacian case, where the stable state invades the unstable one at constant speed, we prove here that invasion holds at an exponential in time velocity. These results provide a mathematically rigorous justification of numerous heuristics about this model.