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In the last few years, a good deal of progress has been made in the understanding of the qualitative properties of solutions of reaction-diffusion equations. This has been due to the introduction of new topological techniques into the field; in particular, we mention the concept of an isolated invariant set, and its index, as developed in [2].
Research for both authors supported in part by the NSF.
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Conley, C.C., Smoller, J.A. (1983). Algebraic and Topological Invariants for Reaction-Diffusion Equations. In: Ball, J.M. (eds) Systems of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations. NATO Science Series C: (closed), vol 111. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7189-9_1
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