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The Ginzburg–Landau equation on the real line has spatially periodic steady states of the form , with and . For , , we construct solutions which converge for all t>0 to the limiting pattern as . These solutions are stable with respect to sufficiently small perturbations, and behave asymptotically in time like , where is uniquely determined by the boundary conditions . This extends a previous result of [BrK92] by removing the assumption that should be close to zero. The existence of the limiting profile is obtained as an application of the theory of monotone operators, and the long-time behavior of our solutions is controlled by rewriting the system in scaling variables and using energy estimates involving an exponentially growing damping term.
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Received: 22 January 1998 / Accepted: 19 April 1998
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Gallay, T., Mielke, A. Diffusive Mixing of Stable States in the Ginzburg–Landau Equation. Comm Math Phys 199, 71–97 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002200050495
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