Non-linear stability of double bubbles under surface diffusion

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Abstract: We consider the evolution of triple junction clusters driven by the surface diffusion flow. On the triple line we use the boundary conditions derived by Garcke and Novick-Cohen as the singular limit of a Cahn-Hilliard equation with degenerated mobility. These conditions are the concurrency of the triple junction, angle conditions between the hypersurfaces, continuity of the chemical potentials and a flux-balance. For this system we show stability of its energy minimizers, i.e., standard double bubbles.The main argument relies on a Lojasiewicz-Simon gradient inequality. The proof of it differs from others works due to the fully non-linear boundary conditions and problems with the (non-local) tangential part.


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.



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