Stationary Coexistence of Hexagons and Rolls via Rigorous Computations

In this work we introduce a rigorous computational method for finding heteroclinic solutions of a system of two second order differential equations. These solutions correspond to standing waves between rolls and hexagonal patterns of a two-dimensional pattern formation PDE model. After reformulating the problem as a projected boundary value problem (BVP) with boundaries in the stable/unstable manifolds, we compute the local manifolds using the parameterization method and solve the BVP using Chebyshev series and the radii polynomial approach. Our results settle a conjecture by Doelman et al. [European J. Appl. Math., 14 (2003), pp. 85–110] about the coexistence of hexagons and rolls.