Yasumasa Nishiura ; translated by Kunimochi Sakamoto.
Providence, R.I. :
American Mathematical Society,
c2002.
xx, 311 p. :
ill. ;
22 cm.
Iwanami series in modern mathematics
Translations of mathematical monographs,
v. 209
0065-9282 ;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-308) and index.
Separation and Unification of Scales -- Problem of Cumulative Term Type -- Problem of Transition Layer Type -- Very Slow Motion Manifolds and Hyperbolicity -- Renormalization Group Method -- Amplitude Equations -- Order Parameter -- Derivation of Amplitude Equations -- Validity of Amplitude Equation -- Attractivity of the Ginzburg-Landau Equation -- Stability of Stationary Periodic Solutions for the Swift-Hohenberg Equation -- Front Solutions of the Ginzburg-Landau Equation -- Renormalization Group and Its Application -- Marginal Stability Criterion and Pattern Selection -- Pattern Selection -- A Brief History on Dendrites -- Wave Speed Selection in the Fisher-Kolmogorov Equation -- Marginal Stability Criterion and Its Applications -- Credibility of Marginal Stability Criterion -- Modern Developments[superscript 1] -- Pattern Formation -- What is Pattern Formation? -- Gradient System and Its Dynamics -- Dynamics of Open Systems -- Method of Singular Limit Analysis -- Mean Curvature Flow -- Level-set Method and Viscosity Solution -- Distinguished Limits of the Phase Field Model -- Singular Limit Eigenvalue Problem -- Balanced Scaling in Singular Limit -- Transient Dynamics -- Self-Replication Pattern as Transient Dynamics -- Elementary Transient Dynamics -- Self-Replication Dynamics on a Finite Interval -- Pulse Interaction and Self-Replication Dynamics on the Infinite Interval -- Spatio-Temporal Chaos and Heteroclinic Cycle -- Construction of a Heteroclinic Loop -- Future Perspectives.