 Solution (source code)

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= Solution

With hostile Dirichlet boundaries, expand in $\sin(k\pi x/L)$. The $k$th amplitude grows at rate $\alpha-D(k\pi/L)^2$. Persistence requires the principal rate to be nonnegative, hence $\alpha\ge D\pi^2/L^2$; strict inequality gives growth.

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