Accession Number:
AD0730017
Title:
A Bifurcation Problem for a Nonlinear Partial Differential Equation of Parabolic Type,
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Corporate Author:
BROWN UNIV PROVIDENCE R I DIV OF APPLIED MATHEMATICS
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Report Date:
1971-01-01
Pagination or Media Count:
37.0
Abstract:
The document discusses the boundary value problem upsilon where usupt usup xx lambda fu, 0 or x or pi, 0 t positive infinite ux0 ux pi 0, 0 or t positive infinity ut0 phix, 0 or x or pi. Here, lambda is a non-negative parameter f is a given real-valued function defined and of class csup 2 on -infinity, infinity and phi is an arbitrarily specified function of class Csup 1 on 0, pi satisfying phi0 phipi 0. Under suitable hypotheses concerning f, investigated is the existence and stability properties of stationary solutions for upsilon. Our approach is to interpret upsilon as a dynamical system in an appropriately chosen Banach space, and then to apply to upsilon certain known results in the theory of Liapunov stability for general dynamical systems. Author
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- Theoretical Mathematics