Global behaviour of bistable solutions for hyperbolic gradient systems in one unbounded spatial dimension

Abstract

This paper is concerned with damped hyperbolic gradient systems of the form \[ αu_{tt} + u_t = -\nabla V(u) + u_{xx}\,, \] where the spatial domain is the whole real line, the state variable $u$ is multidimensional, $\alpha$ is a positive quantity, and the potential $V$ is coercive at infinity. For such systems, under generic assumptions on the potential, the asymptotic behaviour of every bistable solution (that is, every solution close at both ends of space to stable homogeneous equilibria) is described. Every such solution approaches, far to the left in space a stacked family of bistable fronts travelling to the left, far to the right in space a stacked family of bistable fronts travelling to the right, and in between a pattern of profiles of stationary solutions homoclinic or heteroclinic to stable homogeneous equilibria, going slowly away from one another. In the absence of maximum principle, the arguments are purely variational. This extends previous results obtained in companion papers for damped wave equations or parabolic gradient systems, in the spirit of the program initiated in the late seventies by Fife and McLeod on the global asymptotic behaviour of bistable solutions for parabolic equations.

91 pages, 17 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1604.02002

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