Eventual monotonicity and convergence to travelling fronts for the solutions of parabolic equations in cylinders

Roquejoffre, Jean-Michel

Annales de l'I.H.P. Analyse non linéaire, Tome 14 (1997) no. 4, pp. 499-552.

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