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# The existence and uniqueness of unstable eigenvalues for stripe patterns in the Gierer-Meinhardt system

• The Gierer-Meinhardt system is a mathematical model describing the process of hydra regeneration. This system has a stationary solution with a stripe pattern on a rectangular domain, but numerical results suggest that such stripe pattern is unstable. In [8], Kolokolnikov et al. proved the existence of a positive eigenvalue, which is called an unstable eigenvalue, for a stationary solution with a stripe pattern by the NLEP method, which implies the instability of the stripe pattern. In addition, the uniqueness of the unstable eigenvalue was shown under some technical assumptions in [8]. In this paper, we prove the existence and uniqueness of an unstable eigenvalue by using the SLEP method without any extra conditions. We also prove the existence of a single-spike solution in one-dimension.
Mathematics Subject Classification: 35K57, 35K50.

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