Traveling waves with paraboloid like interfaces for balanced bistable dynamics

Chen, Xinfu; Guo, Jong-Shenq; Hamel, François; Ninomiya, Hirokazu; Roquejoffre, Jean-Michel

Annales de l'I.H.P. Analyse non linéaire, Tome 24 (2007) no. 3, pp. 369-393.

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