Clifford Tori and the singularly perturbed Cahn-Hilliard equation (Q512644): Difference between revisions

In the paper under review, for \(\epsilon>0\) small enough, the author constructs solutions \((u_\epsilon,\lambda_\epsilon)\) in \(C^{4,\alpha}(\mathbb{R}^3)\times \mathbb{R}\) to the Cahn-Hilliard equation \[ -\epsilon^2\Delta\Big(-\epsilon^2 \Delta u_\epsilon+W'(u_\epsilon)\Big)+W''(u_\epsilon)\Big(-\epsilon^2 \Delta u_\epsilon+W'(u_\epsilon)\Big)=\epsilon^4\lambda_\epsilon(1-u_\epsilon) \] whose nodal sets approach the Clifford torus, i.e. the zero level set of the function \[ f(x)\equiv \Big(\sqrt{2}-\sqrt{x_1^2+x_2^2}\Big)^2+x_3^2-1\, . \] Here, \(W\) is a an even potential which satisfies \[ W(t)\geq 0 \quad \forall t\, , \quad W(t)= 0 \quad \mathrm{if\;and\;only\;if\;} t=\pm 1 \, , \quad W''(\pm 1)>0\, . \] The proof is based on the Lyapunov-Schmidt reduction.