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Convergence for General Full Discretizations of
Center Manifolds for Parabolic Differential Equations
Klaus Boehmer
Philipps Universitaet, Fachbereich Mathematik und Informatik, Marburg, Germany
Abstract
For parabolic differential equations, space and time discretization
methods, so called full discretizations, are necessary to determine
the dynamics on center manifolds. Until now, only very little seems
to be known about the convergence of these full discretizations. We
show that, allowing stable, center, unstable manifolds, for the
standard space discretization methods, the space discrete center
manifolds converge to the original center manifolds in the following
sense: The coefficients of the Taylor expansion of a discrete center
manifold and its normal form converge to those of the original center
manifold. Then standard or geometric time discretization methods can
be applied to the discrete center manifold system of ordinary
differential equations. We prove convergence for these full
discretizations and give a short outline for the Hopf-bifurcation
as example.
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