# Semiflows and continuous symmetries

Given a differential equation on a Banach space $\mathcal{X}$ of the form $\frac{d u}{d t} = F(u)$, it is often the case that $F$ is equivariant under translations, i.e. that $T_\alpha F(u) = F(T_\alpha u)$ where $(T_\alpha f)(x) = f(x+\alpha)$. The set of translation operators {$T_\alpha, \alpha \in \mathbb{R}$} is a (unitary ?) representation of the Lie group $\mathbb{R}$; its infinitesimal generator is $\tau = \frac{d}{d x}$. Assume that $u_*$ is an equilibrium of the differential equation, so $F(u_*)=0$.

My question is if and when it is possible to write a solution to the above differential equation as $u(t) = T_{\alpha(t)} (u_* + v(t))$, where $v$ is transversal to $\tau u_*$ in the following way: take the linear form $\phi_* \in \mathcal{X}^*$ for which $\phi_* (\tau u_* ) = 1$, then $v \in \mathcal{H} =$ { $v \in \mathcal{X}: \phi_*(v) = 0$ }.

Loosely speaking, this means that we can split the action of the semiflow generated by the differential equation in a part transversal to the direction of the translation group action at $u_*$, followed by a translation. This specific form of the solution was stated as an Ansatz in Haragus&Iooss (Springer, 2011), 'Local bifurcations, center manifolds and normal forms in infinite-dimensional dynamical systems', p. 56.