The existences of transverse homoclinic solutions and chaos for parabolic equations (Q2642137)

By means of the Lyapunov-Schmidt method and by using exponential dichotomies, the authors investigate the persistence of homoclinic orbits for parabolic equation \[ \dot x+Ax=f(x)+\varepsilon g(x,t,\varepsilon) \] with small time periodic perturbations \(\varepsilon g\) and sectorial operator \(A\). Under applicable conditions, the homoclinic solutions for the perturbed system will be transversal and hence the perturbed system will exhibit chaos. After a short introduction, in section 2 the authors give some notations and discuss some properties of the linearization of the unperturbed system. In section 3 they prove the existence of homoclinic orbits under some smoothness assumptions on \(f\) and \(g\) with respect to an appropriate fractional power space \(X^\alpha\) related to \(A\) and assuming an exponential dichotomy for the linearization of the unperturbed system. In section 4, by means on the shadowing lemma by \textit{C. M. Blazquez} [``Transverse homoclinic oribits in periodically perturbed parabolic equations'', Nonlinear Anal., Theory Methods Appl. 10, 1277--1291 (1986; Zbl 0612.58040)] they show the existence of a transversal homoclinic orbit.