Extremal-state asymptotics of exponential Burgers solutions ($s=-(q_1+q_N)/2$)

For ordered states $q_1<\cdots <q_N$, in the moving frame $\theta =sZ+\xi$ the first and last exponents in the finite-exponential Cole-Hopf solution have the same leading coefficient. Each interior state's coefficient is smaller by $(q_j-q_1)(q_N-q_j)/(4ϵ)>0$. Thus the large-$Z$ moving-frame profile is the two-state shock between the extremes. At fixed $\theta$, the endpoint of largest absolute value dominates; equal opposite extremes leave a stationary shock.