Minimal travelling-wave selection conjecture for the free-boundary PDE

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Let (u,L)(u,L) solve the free-boundary problem, and define

U(x,t):=∫x∞u(y,t) dy,U0(x):=∫x∞u0(dy).U(x,t):=\int_x^{\infty}u(y,t)\,dy,\qquad U_0(x):=\int_x^{\infty}u_0(dy).

Let Πmin⁡(x):=∫x∞πmin⁡(y) dy\Pi_{\min}(x):=\int_x^{\infty}\pi_{\min}(y)\,dy denote the integrated minimal travelling wave. Minimal travelling-wave selection conjecture. The following are equivalent:

  1. lim sup⁡x→∞1xln⁡U0(x)≤−2\displaystyle \limsup_{x\rightarrow\infty}\frac{1}{x}\ln U_0(x)\leq -\sqrt{2};
  2. lim sup⁡t→∞Ltt≤2\displaystyle \limsup_{t\rightarrow\infty}\frac{L_t}{t}\leq \sqrt{2};
  3. lim⁡t→∞Ltt=2\displaystyle \lim_{t\rightarrow\infty}\frac{L_t}{t}=\sqrt{2};
  4. U(Lt+x,t)→Πmin⁡(x)U(L_t+x,t)\rightarrow\Pi_{\min}(x) uniformly in xx as t→∞t\rightarrow\infty.

This conjecture characterises the sufficiently light-tailed initial conditions that select the minimal travelling wave. The equivalence of the tail condition, minimal asymptotic speed and uniform convergence of the profile remains open.

References

Primary source

Julien Berestycki and Oliver Tough, “Selection principle for the N-BBM”, arXiv:2407.05792 (2024).

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