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Nonlinear Systems & Linearization · Superchallenge problem

Traveling waves of a bistable reaction–diffusion equation lead to the system u′=v,  v′=−cv−u(1−u)(u−14)u' = v,\; v' = -cv - u(1 - u)\left(u - \tfrac14\right). The equilibria (1,0)(1, 0) and (0,0)(0, 0) are both saddles, and there is exactly one value c>0c > 0 for which a heteroclinic orbit runs from (1,0)(1, 0) to (0,0)(0, 0). Find cc.