Analyticity of Ginzburg-Landau modes (Q1900173)

The Ginzburg-Landau formalism substitutes for the usual center manifold theory in the case when the underlying spatial domain on which an evolution equation is defined is unbounded and the related linearized equations have a continuous spectrum. This technique is applied to the Kuramoto-Shivashinski equation in one spatial dimension. It is shown that any solution \(u\) emanating from sufficiently small initial data can be expressed as the sum \[ u= \sum_{m\in \mathbb{Z}} \varepsilon^{\beta_1(m)} A_m(\varepsilon x)e^{imx} \] at a certain (large) time \(t\). The functions \(A_m\) are analytic on a strip in the complex plane and further estimates on \(u\) and \(A_m\) are given. The lowest order term in the above decomposition solves the so called Ginzburg-Landau equation. Finally, some possible applications and generalizations of the method to a broader class of equations like e.g. Taylor-Couette problem are discussed.