Retracting fronts for the nonlinear complex heat equation

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Authors Guillaume Réocreux, Emmanuel Risler

Publication date 5 March 2017

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Homoclinic and heteroclinic solutions to ordinary differential equations (34C37) Reaction-diffusion equations (35K57) Ginzburg-Landau equations (35Q56)

Abstract: The "nonlinear complex heat equation" $A_t=i|A{|}^{2}A+A_{xx}$ was introduced by P. Coullet and L. Kramer as a model equation exhibiting travelling fronts induced by non-variational effects, called "retracting fronts". In this paper we study the existence of such fronts. They go by one-parameter families, bounded at one end by the slowest and "steepest" front among the family, a situation presenting striking analogies with front propagation into unstable states.

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