Slow motion for the 1D Swift-Hohenberg equation (Q338440)
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Slow motion for the 1D Swift-Hohenberg equation (English)
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4 November 2016
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The authors study the behavior of certain solutions to the Swift-Hohenberg type equation \[ u_t=ru-(\bar q^2+\partial_x^2)^2u+f(u) \] on the one-dimensional torus \(\mathbb{T}.\) Results from \(\Gamma\)-covergence are combined with ODE theory to show that solutions corresponding to initial data that is \(L^1\)-close to a jump function \(v,\) remain close to \(v\) for large time. This is achieved by regarding the equation as the \(L^2\)-gradient flow of a second order energy functional and obtaining asymptotic lower bounds on this energy in terms of the number of jumps of the function \(v.\)
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Swift-Hohenberg equation
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\(\Gamma\)-convergence
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slow motion
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\(L^2\)-gradient flow
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asymptotic analysis
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energy functional
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