Selection of rigid pulled pattern-forming fronts

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Let uplu_\mathrm{pl} be a rigid pulled pattern-forming front, meaning a rigid front with marginal spectral stability that leaves behind a diffusively stable periodic pattern and has negative group velocity. Selection of rigid pulled pattern-forming fronts. uplu_\mathrm{pl} should be a selected front, with position correction

h(t)=−32ηlinlog⁡t+O(1).h(t)=-\frac{3}{2\eta_\mathrm{lin}}\log t+\mathrm{O}(1).

Rigorous selection remains open; partial results provide speed bounds and stability under perturbations that do not cut off the front tail.

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Montie Avery, Matt Holzer and Arnd Scheel, “Selection mechanisms in front invasion”, arXiv:2512.07764 (2026).

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