Multiphase solutions to the vector Allen-Cahn equation: crystalline and other complex symmetric structures

DOI10.1007/S00205-017-1112-5MaRDI QIDQ2014377zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Peter W. Bates, Panayotis Smyrnelis, Giorgio Fusco

Publication date 11 August 2017

Published in Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1411.4008

zbMATH Keywords

existence resultpositive homomorphismreflection groupvector Allen-Cahn equationequivariant classical solutionparabolic Allen-Cahn equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Maximum principles in context of PDEs (35B50) Variational methods for elliptic systems (35J50) Semilinear elliptic equations with Laplacian, bi-Laplacian or poly-Laplacian (35J91) Semilinear parabolic equations (35K58) PDEs in connection with mechanics of deformable solids (35Q74) Crystalline structure (74E15)

Abstract: We present a systematic study of entire symmetric solutions $u:R^{n}ightarrow{R}^m$ of the vector Allen-Cahn equation $Deltau-W_u(u)=0,xin{R}^n$, where $W:R^{m}ightarrowR$ is smooth, symmetric, nonnegative with a finite number of zeros and $W_u=(fracpartialWpartial{u}_1,ldots,fracpartialWpartial{u}_m{)}^{o}p$. We introduce a general notion of equivariance with respect to a homomorphism $f:GightarrowGamma$ ($G,Gamma$ reflection groups) and prove two abstract results, concerning the cases of $G$ finite and $G$ discrete, for the existence of equivariant solutions. Our approach is variational and based on a mapping property of the parabolic vector Allen-Cahn equation and on a pointwise estimate for vector minimizers.

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