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Instability of an equilibrium of a partial differential equation

Analysis of PDEs 2007-09-10 v2 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

A nonlinear parabolic differential equation with a quadratic nonlinearity is presented which has at least one equilibrium. The linearization about this equilibrium is asymptotically stable, but by using a technique inspired by H. Fujita, we show that the equilibrium is unstable in the nonlinear setting. The perturbations used have the property that they are small in every LpL^p norm, yet they result in solutions which fail to be global.

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@article{arxiv.0704.3989,
  title  = {Instability of an equilibrium of a partial differential equation},
  author = {Michael Robinson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0704.3989},
  year   = {2007}
}

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12 pages