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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2006 ii Paper 3 13B b Solution by
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A Fourier mode with evolves under . Its trace remains negative for a homogeneously stable positive branch. Its determinant isIf , this is positive for every . Otherwise its minimum is attained at . Stability requires , orIn terms of , the boundary is the positive root of :Within , all modes decay for ; a finite band grows for , giving a Turing instability. Equality is neutral at one nonzero wavenumber.
For , the positive lower branch is unstable for every . The upper branch is homogeneously stable for : it is stable to all modes to the left of and unstable to spatial modes to the right. For it is already homogeneously unstable. The zero branch is stable to every spatial mode when , because its mode eigenvalues are and .
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