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Modulation equations play an essential role in the understanding of complicated systems near the threshold of instability. For scalar parabolic equations for which instability occurs at nonzero wavelength, we show that the associated Ginzburg-Landau equation dominates the dynamics of the nonlinear problem locally, at least over a long timescale. We develop a method which is simpler than previous ones and allows initial conditions of lower regularity. It involves a careful handling of the critical modes in the Fourier-transformed problem and an estimate of Gronwall's type. As an example, we treat the Kuramoto-Shivashinsky equation. Moreover, the method enables us to handle vector-valued problems [see G. Schneider (1992)].
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Schneider, G. A new estimate for the Ginzburg-Landau approximation on the real axis. J Nonlinear Sci 4, 23–34 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02430625
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02430625