Existence of secondary bifurcations or isolas for PDEs

Marcio Gameiro, Jean Philippe Lessard

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Abstract

In this paper, we introduce a method to conclude about the existence of secondary bifurcations or isolas of steady state solutions for parameter dependent nonlinear partial differential equations. The technique combines the Global Bifurcation Theorem, knowledge about the non-existence of nontrivial steady state solutions at the zero parameter value and explicit information about the coexistence of multiple nontrivial steady states at a positive parameter value. We apply the method to the two-dimensional SwiftHohenberg equation.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)4131-4137
Number of pages7
JournalNonlinear Analysis, Theory, Methods and Applications
Volume74
Issue number12
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 2011
Externally publishedYes

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Analysis
  • Applied Mathematics

Keywords

  • Bifurcations of equilibria for PDEs
  • Global Bifurcation Theorem
  • Rigorous numerics
  • Secondary bifurcation

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