2025/07/16 by Sandstede, Bjorn
#Dynamical Systems (math.DS) #FOS: Mathematics
paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2507.12277
Motivated by theoretical analyses of spatially localized structures with arbitrarily long periodic plateaus, we provide a framework of assumptions that simplifies their analysis and leads to a topological criterion for when localized patterned structures lie on a discrete stack of loops or on a single unbounded branch. The framework proposed here also connects closely with continuation algorithms that are often used to verify the hypotheses that guarantee the emergence of localized patterned states.