Dimension of the attractors associated to the Ginzburg-Landau partial differential equation (Q1091662)

We study the long-time behavior of solutions to the Ginzburg-Landau partial differential equation. It is shown that a finite-dimensional attractor captures all the solutions. An upper bound on this dimension is given in terms of physical quantities, by estimating the Lyapunov exponents on the trajectories. Finally, using the well-known side-band instabilities of an exact, time-dependent solution (Stokes solution) we derive lower bounds on the dimension of the universal attractor. Moreover the lower and upper bounds agree.