Delayed loss of stability in singularly perturbed finite-dimensional gradient flows

DOI10.3233/ASY-181475MaRDI QIDQ4633438zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Giovanni Scilla, Francesco Solombrino

Publication date 2 May 2019

Published in Asymptotic Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.00737

zbMATH Keywords

dynamical systemsgradient flowheteroclinic solutionssingular perturbationsvariational methods

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational methods applied to PDEs (35A15) Singular perturbations in context of PDEs (35B25) Stability in context of PDEs (35B35) Blow-up in context of PDEs (35B44) PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Viscous-inviscid interaction (76D09)

Abstract: In this paper we study the singular vanishing-viscosity limit of a gradient flow in a finite dimensional Hilbert space, focusing on the so-called delayed loss of stability of stationary solutions. We find a class of time-dependent energy functionals and initial conditions for which we can explicitly calculate the first discontinuity time $t^{\ast }$ of the limit. For our class of functionals, $t^{\ast }$ coincides with the blow-up time of the solutions of the linearized system around the equilibrium, and is in particular strictly greater than the time $t_c$ where strict local minimality with respect to the driving energy gets lost. Moreover, we show that, in a right neighborhood of $t^{\ast }$, rescaled solutions of the singularly perturbed problem converge to heteroclinic solutions of the gradient flow. Our results complement the previous ones by Zanini, where the situation we consider was excluded by assuming the so-called transversality conditions, and the limit evolution consisted of strict local minimizers of the energy up to a negligible set of times.

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