Diffusive stability of oscillations in reaction-diffusion systems Thierry Gallay Universite de Grenoble I Institut Fourier, UMR CNRS 5582 BP 74 38402 Saint-Martin-d'Heres, France Arnd Scheel University of Minnesota School of Mathematics 206 Church St. S.E. Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA Abstract We study nonlinear stability of spatially homogeneous oscillations in reaction-diffusion sys- tems. Assuming absence of unstable linear modes and linear diffusive behavior for the neutral phase, we prove that spatially localized perturbations decay algebraically with the diffusive rate t?n/2 in space dimension n. We also compute the leading order term in the asymptotic expansion of the solution, and show that it corresponds to a spatially localized modulation of the phase. Our approach is based on a normal form transformation in the kinetics ODE which partially decouples the phase equation, at the expense of making the whole system quasilinear. Stability is then obtained by a global fixed point argument in temporally weighted Sobolev spaces. Corresponding author: Arnd Scheel Keywords: periodic solutions, diffusive stability, normal forms, quasilinear parabolic systems
- reaction- diffusion systems
- spatially distributed
- nonlinear heat equation
- floquet exponent
- u?
- any finite-size
- stability analysis
- linear time-periodic