Fronts in the Wake of a Parameter Ramp: Slow Passage through Pitchfork and Fold Bifurcations

DOI10.1137/22M1541812arXiv2212.09131MaRDI QIDQ6076401FDOQ6076401

Authors: Ryan Goh, Tasso J. Kaper, Arnd Scheel, Theodore Vo 

Publication date: 21 September 2023

Published in: SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This work studies front formation in the Allen-Cahn equation with a parameter heterogeneity which slowly varies in space. In particular, we consider a heterogeneity which mediates the local stability of the zero state and subsequent pitchfork bifurcation to a non-trivial state. For slowly-varying ramps which are either rigidly propagating in time or stationary, we rigorously establish existence and stability of positive, monotone fronts and give leading order expansions for their interface location. For non-zero ramp speeds, and sufficiently small ramp slopes, the front location is determined by the local transition between convective and absolute instability of the base state and leads to an O(1) delay beyond the instantaneous pitchfork location before the system jumps to a nontrivial state. The slow ramp induces a further delay of the interface controlled by a slow-passage through a fold of strong- and weak-stable eigenspaces of the associated linearization. We introduce projective coordinates to de-singularize the dynamics near the trivial state and track relevant invariant manifolds all the way to the fold point. We then use geometric singular perturbation theory and blow-up techniques to locate the desired intersection of invariant manifolds. For stationary ramps, the front is governed by the slow passage through the instantaneous pitchfork bifurcation with inner expansion given by the unique Hastings-McLeod connecting solution of Painlev'{e}'s second equation. We once again use geometric singular perturbation theory and blow-up to track invariant manifolds into a neighborhood of the non-hyperbolic point where the ramp passes through zero and to locate intersections.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.09131

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zbMATH Keywords

geometric singular perturbation theoryAllen-Cahnbifurcation delayinvasion frontgeometric blow-upslow parameter ramp

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Singular perturbations for ordinary differential equations (34E15) Singular perturbations in context of PDEs (35B25) Pattern formations in context of PDEs (35B36) Multiple scale methods for ordinary differential equations (34E13)

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