The dynamics of small amplitude solutions of the Swift-Hohenberg equation on a large interval (Q1947909)

The authors' concern in this paper is the dynamics of the one-dimensional Swift-Hohenberg equation defined on an interval whose longitude satisfies a special requirement, and the boundary conditions are homogeneous of Dirichlet-Neumann type at each boundary. After an appropriate scaling of the equation and letting each bifurcation parameter be close enough to its critical values for large longitude, there are conditions for applying the center manifold theorem, so that the problem can be reduced to a two-dimensional ODE. On the center manifold, the author provides families of steady solutions and heteroclinic connections. A standard bifurcation analysis shows that a circle of equilibria bifurcates, leading to a family of spatially periodic solutions. The author shows that, under the required conditions for the longitude, the critical value of the parameter for the appearance of instability changes a little bit when the equation is restricted to such an interval, however, the main features of the dynamics of the equation, when admitting \(2 \pi\)-periodic solutions, are preserved by the restriction.