Abstract
We study the saddle-node bifurcation of a spatially homogeneous oscillation in a reaction-diffusion system posed on the real line. Beyond the stability of the primary homogeneous oscillations created in the bifurcation, we investigate existence and stability of wave trains with large wavelength that accompany the homogeneous oscillation. We find two different scenarios of possible bifurcation diagrams which we refer to as elliptic and hyperbolic. In both cases, we find all bifurcating wave trains and determine their stability on the unbounded real line. We confirm that the accompanying wave trains undergo a saddle-node bifurcation parallel to the saddle-node of the homogeneous oscillation, and we also show that the wave trains necessarily undergo sideband instabilities prior to the saddle-node.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 479-496 |
| Number of pages | 18 |
| Journal | Journal of Dynamics and Differential Equations |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue number | 2 |
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| State | Published - Jun 2007 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was partially supported by the National Science Foundation through grant NSF DMS-0504271 (A. S.), and the Priority Program SPP 1095 of the German Research Foundation (J. R.). The authors are grateful to the referee for careful reading of the manuscript and many helpful suggestions.
Keywords
- Homogeneous oscillation
- Reaction diffusion systems
- Saddle-node bifurcation
- Stability
- Wave trains