Instability in a geometric parabolic equation on convex domain instability on convex domain. (Q1869771)

A classical result of \textit{R. G. Casten} and \textit{Ch. J. Holland} [ibid. 27, 266--273 (1978; Zbl 0338.35055)] or Matano states that equilibrium states for semilinear parabolic equations under no-flux conditions on the boundary must be constant, provided the spatial domain is convex. This result has been extended to cooperative parabolic systems by \textit{K. Kishimoto} and \textit{H. F. Weinberger} [ibid. 58, 15--21 (1985; Zbl 0599.35080)]. In the paper under review the authors prove an analogous result for parabolic systems of \(m\) equations, whose solution vectors lie on the unit sphere \(S^{m-1}\). The title of the paper is obviously mixed up and was later corrected (the last four words were superfluous). The reviewer has worked on quasilinear equations, see [\textit{B. Kawohl}, Instability criteria for solutions of second-order elliptic quasilinear differential equations, in P. Marcellini (ed.) et al., Partial differential equations and applications. Collected papers in honor of Carlo Pucci on the occasion of his 70th birthday, Marcel Dekker, New York, Lect. Notes Pure Appl. Math. 177, 201--207 (1996; Zbl 0854.35012)].