Global behaviour of radially symmetric solutions stable at infinity for gradient systems

arXiv1703.02134MaRDI QIDQ6283976FDOQ6283976

Authors: Emmanuel Risler 

Publication date: 6 March 2017

Abstract: This paper is concerned with radially symmetric solutions of systems of the form [ u_t = - abla V(u) + Delta_x u ] where space variable $x$ and and state-parameter $u$ are multidimensional, and the potential $V$ is coercive at infinity. For such systems, under generic assumptions on the potential, the asymptotic behaviour of solutions "stable at infinity", that is approaching a spatially homogeneous equilibrium when $|x|$ approaches $+infty$, is investigated. It is proved that every such solutions approaches a stacked family of radially symmetric bistable fronts travelling to infinity. This behaviour is similar to the one of bistable solutions for gradient systems in one unbounded spatial dimension, described in a companion paper. It is expected (but unfortunately not proved at this stage) that behind these travelling fronts the solution again behaves as in the one-dimensional case (that is, the time derivative approaches zero and the solution approaches a pattern of stationary solutions).

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic behavior of solutions to PDEs (35B40) Critical points of functionals in context of PDEs (e.g., energy functionals) (35B38) Reaction-diffusion equations (35K57)

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