Extensive properties of the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation (Q1283756)

The authors study the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation on \({\mathbb R}^d\). Such kind of equations demonstrate frequently chaotic behavior and the authors want to discuss rigorously the notion of ``chaoticity per unit length''. In the case \(d<3\) they consider the global attracting set in the space of bounded initial data, and restrict it to a cube \(Q_L\) of side \(L\). Then they cover the last set by a minimal number \(N_{Q_L}(\varepsilon)\) of balls of radius \(\varepsilon\) (in \(L^{\infty}\)). First of all, it is shown that the Kolmogorov \(\varepsilon\)-entropy per unit length, \(H_{\varepsilon}= \lim_{L\to\infty} L^{-d}\log N_{Q_L}(\varepsilon)\), exists. Moreover, it turns out to be that \(H_{\varepsilon}\) is of order \(\log (1/\varepsilon)\), i.e. the attracting set is smaller than the set of bounded analytic functions in a strip.