We consider systems of partial differential equations equivariant under the Euclidean group $E(n)$ and undergoing steady-state bifurcation (with nonzero critical wavenumber) from a fully symmetric equilibrium. A rigorous reduction procedure is presented that leads locally to an optimally small system of equations. In particular, when $n=1$ and $n=2$ and for reaction-diffusion equations with general $n$, reduction leads to a single equation. (Our results are valid generically, with perturbations consisting of relatively bounded partial differential operators.)
In analogy with equivariant bifurcation theory for compact groups, we give a classification of the different types of reduced systems in terms of the absolutely irreducible unitary representations of $E(n)$. The representation theory of $E(n)$ is driven by the irreducible representations of $O(n-1)$. For $n=1$, this constitutes a mathematical statement of the `universality' of the Ginzburg-Landau equation on the line. (In recent work, we addressed the validity of this equation using related techniques.)
When $n=2$, there are precisely two significantly different types of reduced equation: scalar and pseudoscalar, corresponding to the trivial and nontrivial one-dimensional representations of $O(1)$. There are infinitely many possibilities for each $n3$.
%0 Journal Article
%1 melbourne1999steadystate
%A Melbourne, Ian
%D 1999
%I American Mathematical Society (AMS)
%J Transactions of the American Mathematical Society
%K 35b32-pdes-bifurcation 35k55-nonlinear-pde-of-parabolic-type 35q55-nls-like-equations 37g99-local-and-nonlocal-bifurcation-theory-for-dynamical-systems
%N 4
%P 1575--1603
%R 10.1090/s0002-9947-99-02147-9
%T Steady-state bifurcation with Euclidean symmetry
%U https://doi.org/10.1090%2Fs0002-9947-99-02147-9
%V 351
%X We consider systems of partial differential equations equivariant under the Euclidean group $E(n)$ and undergoing steady-state bifurcation (with nonzero critical wavenumber) from a fully symmetric equilibrium. A rigorous reduction procedure is presented that leads locally to an optimally small system of equations. In particular, when $n=1$ and $n=2$ and for reaction-diffusion equations with general $n$, reduction leads to a single equation. (Our results are valid generically, with perturbations consisting of relatively bounded partial differential operators.)
In analogy with equivariant bifurcation theory for compact groups, we give a classification of the different types of reduced systems in terms of the absolutely irreducible unitary representations of $E(n)$. The representation theory of $E(n)$ is driven by the irreducible representations of $O(n-1)$. For $n=1$, this constitutes a mathematical statement of the `universality' of the Ginzburg-Landau equation on the line. (In recent work, we addressed the validity of this equation using related techniques.)
When $n=2$, there are precisely two significantly different types of reduced equation: scalar and pseudoscalar, corresponding to the trivial and nontrivial one-dimensional representations of $O(1)$. There are infinitely many possibilities for each $n3$.
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abstract = {We consider systems of partial differential equations equivariant under the Euclidean group $\mathbf{E}(n)$ and undergoing steady-state bifurcation (with nonzero critical wavenumber) from a fully symmetric equilibrium. A rigorous reduction procedure is presented that leads locally to an optimally small system of equations. In particular, when $n=1$ and $n=2$ and for reaction-diffusion equations with general $n$, reduction leads to a single equation. (Our results are valid generically, with perturbations consisting of relatively bounded partial differential operators.)
In analogy with equivariant bifurcation theory for compact groups, we give a classification of the different types of reduced systems in terms of the absolutely irreducible unitary representations of $\mathbf{E}(n)$. The representation theory of $\mathbf{E}(n)$ is driven by the irreducible representations of $\mathbf{O}(n-1)$. For $n=1$, this constitutes a mathematical statement of the `universality' of the Ginzburg-Landau equation on the line. (In recent work, we addressed the validity of this equation using related techniques.)
When $n=2$, there are precisely two significantly different types of reduced equation: scalar and pseudoscalar, corresponding to the trivial and nontrivial one-dimensional representations of $\mathbf{O}(1)$. There are infinitely many possibilities for each $n\ge 3$. },
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title = {Steady-state bifurcation with Euclidean symmetry},
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