Non-minimizing connecting orbits for multi-well systems

DOI10.1007/S00526-021-02167-3MaRDI QIDQ2113322zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Ramon Oliver-Bonafoux

Publication date 14 March 2022

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.03318

zbMATH Keywords

Allen-Cahn systemsMountain pass lemmaMulti-well potentialsVariational methods

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Homoclinic and heteroclinic solutions to ordinary differential equations (34C37) Applications of variational problems in infinite-dimensional spaces to the sciences (58E50)

Abstract: Given a nonnegative, smooth potential $V:mathbb{R}^{k}omathbbR$ ($kgeq2$) with multiple zeros, we say that a curve $mathfrakq:mathbbRomathbb{R}^k$ is a connecting orbit if it solves the autonomous system of ordinary differential equations �egin{equation} mathfrak{q}= abla_{mathbf{u}} V(mathfrak{q}) , hspace{2mm} mbox{ in } mathbb{R} end{equation} and tends to a zero of $V$ at $pminfty$. Broadly, our goal is to study the existence of connecting orbits for the problem above using variational methods. Despite the rich previous literature concerning the existence of connecting orbits for other types of second order systems, to our knowledge only connecting orbits which minimize the associated energy functional in a suitable function space were proven to exist for autonomous multi-well potentials. The contribution of this paper is to provide, for a class of such potentials, some existence results regarding non-minimizing connecting orbits. Our results are closely related to the ones in the same spirit obtained by J. Bisgard in his PhD thesis (University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2005), where non-autonomous periodic multi-well potentials (ultimately excluding autonomous potentials) are considered. Our approach is based on several refined versions of the classical Mountain Pass Lemma.

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