Lipschitz property of bistable or combustion fronts and its applications

Abstract

For a class of reaction-diffusion equations describing propagation phenomena, we prove that for any entire solution $u$, the level set $\{u=\lambda\}$ is a Lipschitz graph in the time direction if $\lambda$ is close to $1$. Under a further assumption that $u$ connects $0$ and $1$, it is shown that all level sets are Lipschitz graphs. By a blowing down analysis, the large scale motion law for these level sets and a characterization of the minimal speed for travelling waves are also given.