Acceleration in integro-differential combustion equations

Abstract

We study acceleration phenomena in monostable integro-differential equations with ignition nonlinearity. Our results cover fractional Laplace operators and standard convolutions in a unified way, which is also a contribution of this paper. To achieve this, we construct a sub-solution that captures the expected dynamics of the accelerating solution, and this is here the main difficulty. This study involves the flattening effect occurring in accelerated propagation phenomena.