Global continuation of branches of nondegenerate solutions (Q1076872)
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Global continuation of branches of nondegenerate solutions (English)
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1986
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The author discusses an equation \(-u''=u(1-u)(u-\alpha)\) on [0,L] with Robin boundary conditions. He shows that by varying L,\(\alpha\) and a constant in the boundary conditions in a suitable way, one can join the Dirichlet problem to the Neumann problem such that at each stage all solutions are non-degenerate (and thus the number of solutions remains constant during the homotopy). The proofs depend on a careful study of the time map. He uses this result in some of his work on travelling waves [J. Differ. Equations 61, 335-379 (1986)].
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second order differential equations
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Robin boundary conditions
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Dirichlet problem
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Neumann problem
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number of solutions
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time map
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travelling waves
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