Influence of Boundary Conditions on Pattern Formation and Spatial Chaos in Lattice Systems (Q4507293)

The author addresses two questions concerning the influence of boundary conditions on patterns, i.e. equilibria, of finite lattices and limiting infinite lattices. Firstly, does the spatial entropy of stationary solutions in the infinite lattice limit depend on the boundary conditions (Neumann, periodic and Dirichlet)? Secondly, can a stationary solution in the infinite lattice be approximated in some norm by such solutions for finite lattices with some boundary conditions? In a general setting these questions are answered (first: no, second: yes) under suitable assumptions. For a special cellular neural network model, introduced by Chua and Yang in 1988, the author examines patterns and entropy in more detail. For the one-dimensional case an in some sense complete picture is given for so-called `mosaic-patterns' with the help of transition matrices, which are derived for the finite lattice case. In the two-dimensional case two examples are studied, which show the different nature of the above problem for this case.