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 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