A striking correspondence between the dynamics generated by the vector fields and by the scalar parabolic equations

DOI10.1142/S1793744211000369MaRDI QIDQ643858zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Romain Joly, Geneviève Raugel

Publication date 2 November 2011

Published in Confluentes Mathematici (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1005.1727

zbMATH Keywords

equations on a circleequations on an intervalfinite- and infinite-dimensional dynamical systemsgenericityKupka-Smale property

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to partial differential equations (35-02) Oscillation, zeros of solutions, mean value theorems, etc. in context of PDEs (35B05) Attractors (35B41) Reaction-diffusion equations (35K57) Semilinear parabolic equations (35K58) Dynamics induced by flows and semiflows (37C10) Generic properties, structural stability of dynamical systems (37C20) Normal forms, center manifold theory, bifurcation theory for infinite-dimensional dissipative dynamical systems (37L10)

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to enhance a correspondence between the dynamics of the differential equations $doty(t)=g(y(t))$ on $mathbb{R}^d$ and those of the parabolic equations $dotu=Deltau+f(x,u,ablau)$ on a bounded domain $Omega$. We give details on the similarities of these dynamics in the cases $d=1$, $d=2$ and $dgeq3$ and in the corresponding cases $Omega=(0,1)$, $Omega=mathbb{T}^1$ and dim($Omega$)$geq2$ respectively. In addition to the beauty of such a correspondence, this could serve as a guideline for future research on the dynamics of parabolic equations.

Review text

This paper reviews a body of recent work on the global dynamics generated by nonlinear parabolic equations which shows that these are much tamer than would naively be expected for infinite-dimensional dynamical systems. The authors present a correspondence between dynamics of classes of parabolic equations and dynamics of flows generated by vector fields of low-dimensional manifolds. For example, flows generated by parabolic equations on an interval are similar to one-dimensional flows, and flows generated by parabolic equations on a circle are similar to two-dimensional flows. Results of this type and the ideas behind their proofs are surveyed, and the reader is referred to the extensive bibliography for details. Some open questions are presented. A glossary defining various basic terms and concepts is included, making the paper suitable reading for non-specialist readers and for students.

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