start-ver=1.4 cd-journal=joma no-vol=36 cd-vols= no-issue=7 article-no= start-page=1791 end-page=1816 dt-received= dt-revised= dt-accepted= dt-pub-year=2019 dt-pub=20190527 dt-online= en-article= kn-article= en-subject= kn-subject= en-title= kn-title=Axially asymmetric traveling fronts in balanced bistable reaction-diffusion equations en-subtitle= kn-subtitle= en-abstract= kn-abstract= For a balanced bistable reaction-diffusion equation, an axisymmetric traveling front has been well known. This paper proves that an axially asymmetric traveling front with any positive speed does exist in a balanced bistable reaction-diffusion equation. Our method is as follows. We use a pyramidal traveling front for an unbalanced reaction-diffusion equation whose cross section has a major axis and a minor axis. Preserving the ratio of the major axis and a minor axis to be a constant and taking the balanced limit, we obtain a traveling front in a balanced bistable reaction-diffusion equation. This traveling front is monotone decreasing with respect to the traveling axis, and its cross section is a compact set with a major axis and a minor axis when the constant ratio is not 1. en-copyright= kn-copyright= en-aut-name=TaniguchiMasaharu en-aut-sei=Taniguchi en-aut-mei=Masaharu kn-aut-name= kn-aut-sei= kn-aut-mei= aut-affil-num=1 ORCID= affil-num=1 en-affil=Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Science, Okayama University kn-affil= en-keyword=Traveling front kn-keyword=Traveling front en-keyword=Reaction-diffusion equation kn-keyword=Reaction-diffusion equation en-keyword=Asymmetric kn-keyword=Asymmetric en-keyword=Balanced kn-keyword=Balanced END