Matthieu Jonckheere (UBA)

We jointly investigate the existence of quasi-stationary distributions for one-dimensional

Lévy processes and the existence of traveling waves for the Fisher-Kolmogorov-Petrovskii-

Piskunov (F-KPP) equation associated with the same motion. Using probabilistic ideas de-

veloped by S. Harris for the F-KPP equation, we show that the existence of a traveling

wave for the F-KPP equation associated with a centered Lévy processes that branches at rate

r and travels at velocity c is equivalent to the existence of a quasi-stationary distribution for a

Lévy process with the same movement but drifted by -c and killed at zero, with mean absorption time

1/r. This allows to generalize the known existence conditions in both contexts.

Joint work with Pablo Groisman.

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