On a Numerical Liapunov--Schmidt Spectral Method and Its Application to Biological Pattern Formation (Q4787283)

This paper is concerned with the numerical solution of bifurcation problems near primary stabilities by means of Lyapunov-Schmidt spectral methods. In the last years the first author and co-workers have proposed in the last years several alternative approaches to the numerical solution of different types of bifurcation problems and in this paper the main idea is to use spectral techniques to deal with these problems due to their preservation of symmetries and high accuracy. In the first part of the paper the authors present the approximate method in a theoretical frame. In the next section the method is applied to a coupled system of two nonlinear reaction diffusion equations in a three dimensional domain with spherical symmetry. Here, since the symmetry group of the model O(3) is continuous and non abelian, the method is suitable for the problem under consideration. Finally, it can be noticed that due to the highly theoretical presentation of the approximation method the content of the last section will be more useful not only for readers interested in practical solution of this kind of problems but also to other readers that aim to have a clear motivation of the theoretical background.