Instability of singularly perturbed Neumann layer solutions in reaction- diffusion systems (Q1813442)

The authors consider the reaction-diffusion equations \[ u_ t=\varepsilon^ 2u_{xx}+f(u,v),\quad v_ t=Dv_{xx}+g(u,v) \] subject to Neumann conditions \(u_ x=0=v_ x\), and the associated stationary problem \[ \varepsilon^ 2 u_{xx}+f(u,v)=0,\quad Dv_{xx}+g(u,v)=0;\quad u_ x=0=v_ x. \] Singularly perturbed solutions of the boundary layer type which are close to the stable steady state, except in a neighborhood of a boundary point, are called mono- Neumann layers. Instability of the mono-Neumann layer is studied by analyzing the spectral distribution of the linearized problem. It is shown that the dimension of the unstable manifold is one.