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

DOI10.1007/S00205-017-1112-5zbMATH Open1375.35538arXiv1411.4008OpenAlexW1916662089MaRDI QIDQ2014377FDOQ2014377

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)

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.

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

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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)

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