The Bramson logarithmic delay in the cane toads equations
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We study a nonlocal reaction-diffusion-mutation equation modeling the spreading of a cane toads population structured by a phenotypical trait responsible for the spatial diffusion rate. When the trait space is bounded, the cane toads equation admits traveling wave solutions [7]. Here, we prove a Bramson type spreading result: the lag between the position of solutions with localized initial data and that of the traveling waves grows as (3/(2λ∗)) log t. This result relies on a present-time Harnack inequality which allows to compare solutions of the cane toads equation to those of a Fisher-KPP type equation that is local in the trait variable.
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