“…The impact of noise on pattern formation is an important topic that has attracted significant interest from the applied community [2,9,19,44,45,50], but for which little rigorous mathematical theory is available [8,25,32,39]. The Nagumo equation is a natural starting point for such investigations, since it has served in the past as a prototypical system to analyze the interaction between two competing stable states in spatially extended domains [3,4].…”