Variational analysis of a mean curvature flow action functional

DOI10.1007/S00526-014-0726-9zbMATH Open1315.49022arXiv1304.2012OpenAlexW2963762035MaRDI QIDQ2017812FDOQ2017812

Authors: Annibale Magni, Matthias Röger 

Publication date: 23 March 2015

Published in: Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider the reduced Allen-Cahn action functional, which appears as the sharp interface limit of the Allen-Cahn action functional and can be understood as a formal action functional for a stochastically perturbed mean curvature flow. For suitable evolutions of generalized hypersurfaces this functional consists of the sum of the squares of the mean curvature and of the velocity vector, integrated over time and space. For given initial and final conditions we investigate the corresponding action minimization problem. We give a generalized formulation and prove compactness and lower semicontinuity properties of the action functional. Furthermore we characterize the Euler-Lagrange equation for smooth stationary points and investigate conserved quantities. Finally we present an explicit example and consider concentric spheres as initial and final data and characterize in dependence of the given time span the properties of the minimal rotationally symmetric connection.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1304.2012

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zbMATH Keywords

compactnessEuler-Lagrange equationlower semicontinuitysymmetriesmean curvature flowaction minimization problemreduced Allen-Cahn action functional

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational problems in a geometric measure-theoretic setting (49Q20) Weak solutions to PDEs (35D30) Methods involving semicontinuity and convergence; relaxation (49J45) Boundary value problems for nonlinear higher-order PDEs (35G30)

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