# Convective stability of the critical waves of an FKPP-type model for self-organized growth

## TL;DR

The paper analyzes the stability of critical waves in a model of self-organized growth involving two types of particles.

## Contribution

A novel Feynman–Kac approach is used to prove stability of critical waves in a reaction–diffusion system with unbounded weights.

## Key findings

- Critical traveling waves are locally stable under exponentially growing perturbations.
- A modified semi-group approach with unbounded weights was successfully applied.
- A Feynman–Kac formula provides a new exponential a priori estimate for the PDE tail.

## Abstract

We construct the traveling wave solutions of an FKPP growth process of two densities of particles, and prove that the critical traveling waves are locally stable in a space where the perturbations can grow exponentially at the back of the wave. The considered reaction–diffusion system was introduced by Hannezo et al. (Cell 171(1):242–255, 2017) in the context of branching morphogenesis: active, branching particles accumulate inactive particles, which do not react. Thus, the system features a continuum of steady state solutions, complicating the analysis. We adopt a result by Faye and Holzer (J Differ Equ 269(9):6559–6601, 2020) for proving the stability of the critical traveling waves, and modify the semi-group estimates to spaces with unbounded weights. We use a Feynman–Kac formula to get an exponential a priori estimate for the tail of the PDE, a novel and simple approach.