Nonlinear instability of rolls in the 2-dimensional generalized Swift-Hohenberg equation

Abstract

Within the framework developed in \cite{Gr, JLL, RT1}, we rigorously establish the nonlinear instability of roll solutions to the two-dimensional generalized Swift-Hohenberg equation (gSHE). Our analysis is based on spectral information near the maximally unstable Bloch mode, combined with precise semigroup estimates. We construct a certain class of small initial perturbations that grow in time and cause the solution to deviate from the underlying roll solution within a finite time. This result provides a clear transition from spectral to nonlinear instability in a genuinely two-dimensional setting, where the Bloch parameter $\sigma$ ranges over an unbounded domain.