Non-linear stability of double bubbles under surface diffusion (Q2232196)

The authors study the evolution of triple junction clusters driven by the surface diffusion flow with fully nonlinear conditions on the boundary which are derived as the singular limit of a Cahn-Hilliard equation with degenerated mobility. Extending previous short-time existence results, global in time existence of solution evolving under this flow is established by Lyapunov stability of its energy minimizers, i.e., the standard double bubbles in \(\mathbb{R}^n\). Moreover, the solution converges to a standard double bubble.