Center stable manifolds for quasilinear parabolic pde and conditional stability of nonclassical viscous shock waves

2008/11/17 by Zumbrun, Kevin
#Analysis of PDEs (math.AP) #FOS: Mathematics

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0811.2788

Abstract

Motivated by the study of conditional stability of traveling waves, we give an elementary H² center stable manifold construction for quasilinear parabolic PDE, sidestepping apparently delicate regularity issues by the combination of a carefully chosen implicit fixed-point scheme and "damping-type" H^s energy estimates of a type familiar from the study of hyperbolic--parabolic and relaxation systems. An important feature of these methods is that they generalize to situations such as the hyperbolic--parabolic or relaxation case for which parabolic-type smoothing estimates are unavailable. As an application, we show conditional stability of Lax- or undercompressive shock waves of general quasilinear parabolic systems of conservation laws by a pointwise stability analysis on the center stable manifold.

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