Formally gradient reaction-diffusion systems in \(\mathbb{R}^n\) have zero spatio-temporal topological entropy (Q1422614)

The author deals with the following spatially homogeneous reaction-diffusion system in \(\mathbb{R}^d\): \[ \begin{gathered} \partial_t u= a\Delta_x u-(\vec L,\nabla_x) u- \lambda_0 u- f(u),\quad x\in\mathbb{R}^d,\\ u|_{t=0}= u_0,\quad \lambda_0> 0,\end{gathered} \] where \(u= (u^1,\dots, u^k)\) is an unknown vector-valued function, \(\Delta_x\) is the Laplacian with respect to \(x\), \(a\) is a given diffusion matrix, \(\vec L\) is a given constant vector, \((\vec L,\nabla_x) u:= \sum^d_{i=1} L_i\partial_{x_i} u\). Under some suitable assumptions on \(a\), \(f\), \(u_0\), the author proves that the spatio-temporal topological entropy is equal to zero. This generalizes the well-known fact that gradient ordinary differential equations have zero topological entropy.