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Tristability between stripes, up-hexagons, and down-hexagons and snaking bifurcation branches of spatial connections
1Institut für Mathematik, Carl-von-Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, 26111 Oldenburg, Germany.
Abstract:
Third-order amplitude equations on hexagonal lattices can be used for predicting the existence and stability of stripes, up-hexagons, and down-hexagons in pattern-forming systems. These amplitude equations predict the nonexistence of bistable ranges between up- and down-hexagons and tristable ranges between stripes, up-, and down-hexagons. In the present work we use fifth-order amplitude equations for finding such bistable and tristable ranges for a generalized Swift-Hohenberg equation and discuss stationary front connections between up- and down-hexagons.
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