Steady-state bifurcation with Euclidean symmetry
Steady-state bifurcation with Euclidean symmetry
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DOI:
10.1090/s0002-9947-99-02147-9
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发表时间:
1999
影响因子:
1.3
通讯作者:
I. Melbourne
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I. Melbourne
We consider systems of partial differential equations equivariant under the Euclidean group E ( n ) and undergoing steady-state bifurcation (with nonzero critical wavenumber) from a fully symmetric equilibrium. A rigorous reduction procedure is presented that leads locally to an optimally small system of equations. In particular, when n = 1 and n = 2 and for reaction-diffusion equations with general n , reduction leads to a single equation. (Our results are valid generically, with perturbations consisting of relatively bounded partial differential operators.) In analogy with equivariant bifurcation theory for compact groups, we give a classification of the different types of reduced systems in terms of the absolutely irreducible unitary representations of E ( n ). The representation theory of E ( n ) is driven by the irreducible representations of O ( n - 1). For n = 1, this constitutes a mathematical statement of the `universality' of the Ginzburg-Landau equation on the line. (In recent work, we addressed the validity of this equation using related techniques.) When n = 2, there are precisely two significantly different types of reduced equation: scalar and pseudoscalar , corresponding to the trivial and nontrivial one-dimensional representations of O (1). There are infinitely many possibilities for each n equal to or greater than 3.