Special Session 117: Patterns and Attractors in Nonlinear Dynamics

The dynamics of global attractors for fully nonlinear parabolic equations in 1d
Phillipo Lappicy
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Spain
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Abstract:
We explicitly construct global attractors for fully nonlinear parabolic equations in one spatial dimension with two types of phenomena. First, in case the semiflow is dissipative, the attractor is compact and it can be decomposed as equilibria and heteroclinic orbits. Second, in case the semiflow is not dissipative, there are blow-up solutions and the attractor is unbounded - which can be compactified using an appropriate Poincar\`e projection with an induced flow at infinity. In this setting, we view blow-up solutions as heteroclinics orbits to infinity. In both cases of dissipative and non-dissipative nonlinearities, we state necessary and sufficient conditions for the occurrence of heteroclinics between hyperbolic equilibria. The prototype examples are a bounded and unbounded version of the Chafee-Infante attractor.