Analytic patterns for chaotic equations

Robert Conte

SPEC, CEA Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France

Chaotic evolution equations sometimes display regular patterns, which often correspond to closed form analytic solutions. In the dissipative-dispersive Kuramoto and Sivashinsky traveling wave reduction u(x-ct), νu'''+ bu''+μu'+u2/2+A=0,ν≠0, with (ν,b,μ,A) constants, such analytic solutions are known for heteroclinic solutions, but one has also observed (Toh, 1987) homoclinic solutions without corresponding analytic solutions yet. We will review the search for the most general analytic solution admissible by this chaotic differential equation. Several investigations, both analytic by the Painlevé test (Thual and Frisch, 1986) and numerical by Padé approximants (Yee, Conte, Musette, 2003) conclude to its quite probable singlevaluedness for any (ν,b,μ,A). Moreover, Nevanlinna theory on the growth of solutions rules out (Eremenko, 2005) the possibility for this unknown close form singlevalued expression to be generically meromorphic.

We reduce the search for this solution to the search for an entire function which is a deformation, yet to be found, of the entire function σ(z,g2,g3) of Weierstrass violating the odd parity of the latter. The validity of this feature for the one-dimensional complex Ginzburg-Landau equation, whether cubic or quintic, will be discussed.

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