A non-smooth version of the Lojasiewicz-Simon theorem with applications to non-local phase-field systems (Q1883108)

The paper deals with the following nonlocal phase-field model \[ \begin{aligned} \partial_t \chi + \chi -J*\chi +W^\prime(\chi) = \lambda \theta &\quad \text{ in } (0,T) \times \Omega,\\ \partial_t(\theta + \lambda \chi) - \Delta \theta = 0 &\quad \text{ in } (0,T) \times \Omega, \end{aligned} \] subject to the homogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition and initial conditions. The problem is considered in a bounded regular domain \(\Omega \subset \mathbb R^N\), \(N \leq 3\). The authors prove existence and uniqueness results and show that any solution converges in time to a single stationary state. To this end a non-smooth version of the Simon-Lojasiewicz theorem is proved.