López, Vanessa; Boyland, Philip; Heath, Michael T.; Moser, Robert D. Relative periodic solutions of the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation. (English) Zbl 1145.35460 SIAM J. Appl. Dyn. Syst. 4, No. 4, 1042-1075 (2005). Summary: A method of finding relative periodic orbits for differential equations with continuous symmetries is described and its utility demonstrated by computing relative periodic solutions for the one-dimensional complex Ginzburg-Landau equation (CGLE) with periodic boundary conditions. A relative periodic solution is a solution that is periodic in time, up to a transformation by an element of the equation’s symmetry group. With the method used, relative periodic solutions are represented by a space-time Fourier series modified to include the symmetry group element and are sought as solutions to a system of nonlinear algebraic equations for the Fourier coefficients, group element, and time period. The 77 relative periodic solutions found for the CGLE exhibit a wide variety of temporal dynamics, with the sum of their positive Lyapunov exponents varying from 5.19 to 60.35 and their unstable dimensions from 3 to 8. Preliminary work indicates that weighted averages over the collection of relative periodic solutions accurately approximate the value of several functionals on typical trajectories. Cited in 9 Documents MSC: 35Q55 NLS equations (nonlinear Schrödinger equations) 35A30 Geometric theory, characteristics, transformations in context of PDEs 35B10 Periodic solutions to PDEs 65M99 Numerical methods for partial differential equations, initial value and time-dependent initial-boundary value problems Keywords:relative periodic solutions; Ginzburg-Landau equation; spectral-Galerkin method; chaotic pattern dynamics Software:FFTW PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{V. López} et al., SIAM J. Appl. Dyn. Syst. 4, No. 4, 1042--1075 (2005; Zbl 1145.35460) Full Text: DOI arXiv