Universality of crystallographic pinning

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Abstract: We study traveling waves for reaction diffusion equations on the spatially discrete domain . The phenomenon of crystallographic pinning occurs when traveling waves become pinned in certain directions despite moving with non-zero wave speed in nearby directions. Mallet-Paret has shown that crystallographic pinning occurs for all rational directions, so long as the nonlinearity is close to the sawtooth. In this paper we show that crystallographic pinning holds in the horizontal and vertical directions for bistable nonlinearities which satisfy a specific computable generic condition. The proof is based on dynamical systems. In particular, it relies on an examination of the heteroclinic chains which occur as singular limits of wave profiles on the boundary of the pinning region.


The authors study the universality of crystallographic pinning. This phenomenon occurs when traveling waves become pinned in certain direction despite moving with non-zero wave speed in nearby direction. They focus on a discrete two-dimensional reaction diffusion equation and show that crystallographic pinning holds in the horizontal and vertical directions for bistable nonlinearities which satisfy a specific generic condition. It is important to notice that this phenomenon is related with functional differential equations where the nonlinear part satisfy specific conditions (bistability, monotonicity). The analysis is based on dynamical systems method. In particular, they construct a heteroclinic solution for lattice equation satisfying specific boundary and monotonicity conditions. They employ the center manifold reduction along with associated shadowing properties of the lattice equation. Also, they use the Abraham transversality theorem, an extension of which is stated as a main theorem in the last section of this paper.



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