Steady-state structures in a functional-differential diffusion equation with reflection of the spatial argument (Q1878769)

The paper studies the stability of spatially inhomogeneous structures being steady-state solutions of the boundary-value problem \[ u_t(x,t)+u(x,t)=Du_{xx}(x,t)+K(1+\gamma\cos u(-x,t)), \qquad x\in(-l,l),\;t>0, \] \[ u(-l,t)=u(l,t), \quad u_x(-l,t)=u_x(l,t), \qquad t>0. \] Such problems arise in modeling the dynamics of phase modulation of a light wave of Kerr type in an optical system with transformation of reflection coordinates in the feedback contour in one-dimensional approximation.