Special Session 140: Recent advances in wavelet analysis, PDEs and dynamical systems – part III

Nonlinear instability of rolls in the 2-dimensional generalized Swift-Hohenberg equation
Soyeun Jung
Kongju National University
Korea
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Abstract:
In this talk, we rigorously establish the nonlinear instability of roll solutions to the two-dimensional generalized Swift-Hohenberg equation. Our analysis is based on spectral information near the maximally unstable Bloch mode, combined with precise semigroup estimates. We construct a certain class of small initial perturbations that grow in time and cause the solution to deviate from the underlying roll solution within a finite time. This result provides a clear transition from spectral to nonlinear instability in a genuinely two-dimensional setting, where the Bloch parameter ranges over an unbounded domain.