Nonlinear Instability of Periodic Traveling Waves

arXiv1902.10874MaRDI QIDQ6314770FDOQ6314770

Authors: Connor Smith 

Publication date: 27 February 2019

Abstract: We study the local dynamics of $L^{2}left(mathbbRight)$-perturbations to the zero solution of spatially $2pi$-periodic coefficient reaction-diffusion systems. In this case the spectrum of the linearization about the zero solution is purely essential and may be described via the point spectrum of a one-parameter family of Bloch operators. When this essential spectrum is unstable, we characterize a large class of initial perturbations which lead to nonlinear instability of the trivial solution. This is accomplished by using the Bloch transform to construct an appropriate projection to capture the maximum amount of linear exponential growth associated to the initial perturbation arising from the unstable eigenvalues of the Bloch operators. This result is also extended to dissipative systems of conservation laws.

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