Destabilization of Fronts in a Class of Bistable Systems

DOI10.1137/S0036141002419242zbMATH Open1063.35023arXivmath/0212231MaRDI QIDQ4652452FDOQ4652452

Arjen Doelman, David Iron, Yasumasa Nishiura

Publication date: 28 February 2005

Published in: SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this article, we consider a class of bi-stable reaction-diffusion equations in two components on the real line. We assume that the system is singularly perturbed, i.e. that the ratio of the diffusion coefficients is (asymptotically) small. This class admits front solutions that are asymptotically close to the (stable) front solution of the `trivial' scalar bi-stable limit system $u_t=u_{xx}+u(1-u^2)$. However, in the system these fronts can become unstable by varying parameters. This destabilization is either caused by the essential spectrum associated to the linearized stability problem, or by an eigenvalue that exists near the essential spectrum. We use the Evans function to study the various bifurcation mechanisms and establish an explicit connection between the character of the destabilization and the possible appearance of saddle-node bifurcations of heteroclinic orbits in the existence problem.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0212231

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zbMATH Keywords

one space dimensionpattern formationreaction-diffusion equationsstability analysisgeometric singular perturbation theorysaddle-node bifurcationsheteroclinic orbitstwo componentsEvans functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Singular perturbations in context of PDEs (35B25) Bifurcations in context of PDEs (35B32) Reaction-diffusion equations (35K57)

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