Nonlinear instability of solutions in parabolic and hyperbolic diffusion

DOI10.3934/EECT.2013.2.403MaRDI QIDQ2392155zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Stephen Pankavich, Petronela Radu

Publication date 1 August 2013

Published in Evolution Equations and Control Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1110.6240

zbMATH Keywords

semilinear evolution equationssign-changing dampingsteady statessupercritical and exponential nonlinearitiesvariable coefficients

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Oscillation, zeros of solutions, mean value theorems, etc. in context of PDEs (35B05) Dependence of solutions to PDEs on initial and/or boundary data and/or on parameters of PDEs (35B30) Stability in context of PDEs (35B35) Semilinear parabolic equations (35K58) Second-order semilinear hyperbolic equations (35L71)

Abstract: We consider semilinear evolution equations of the form $a(t)partia{l}_{tt}u+b(t)partia{l}_{t}u+Lu=f(x,u)$ and $b(t)partia{l}_{t}u+Lu=f(x,u),$ with possibly unbounded $a(t)$ and possibly sign-changing damping coefficient $b(t)$, and determine precise conditions for which linear instability of the steady state solutions implies nonlinear instability. More specifically, we prove that linear instability with an eigenfunction of fixed sign gives rise to nonlinear instability by either exponential growth or finite-time blow-up. We then discuss a few examples to which our main theorem is immediately applicable, including evolution equations with supercritical and exponential nonlinearities.

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