A sequence of order relations: Encoding heteroclinic connections in scalar parabolic PDE (Q697858)

The paper studies the problem of heteroclinic connections in the attractor of dissipative semilinear parabolic PDE \[ u_t=u_{xx}+f(x,u,u_x),\qquad 0<x<1, \] on a bounded interval with Neumann boundary conditions. Introducing a sequence of order relations, a new and simple criterion is proved for the existence of heteroclinic connections using only information about nodal properties of solutions to the stationary ODE problem.