Nearly real fronts in a Ginzburg-Landau equation

Document Type

Article

Journal/Book Title/Conference

Proceedings of the Royal Society Edinburgh

Volume

116A

Publication Date

1990

First Page

193

Last Page

206

Abstract

Subcritical fronts are shown to exist in a quintic version of the well-known complex Ginzburg–Landau equation, which has a subcritical pitchfork as well as a supercritical saddle-node bifurcation. The fronts connect a finite amplitude plane wave state to a stable zero solution. The unstable manifold at finite amplitude and stable manifold of vanishing amplitude solutions are shown to intersect transversely on an invariant zero-wavenumber manifold with parameters set to be real. By the persistence of transverse intersection, frontal connections exist for a continuum of nearly real fronts parametrised by appropriate variables that exhibit some interesting changes in dimension.

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