Allen-Cahn min-max on surfaces

DOI10.4310/JDG/1609902018zbMATH Open1459.35179arXiv1706.05946OpenAlexW3120150021WikidataQ115164559 ScholiaQ115164559MaRDI QIDQ2218656FDOQ2218656

Authors: Christos Mantoulidis 

Publication date: 15 January 2021

Published in: Journal of Differential Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We use a min-max procedure on the Allen-Cahn energy functional to construct geodesics on closed, 2-dimensional Riemannian manifolds, as motivated by the work of Guaraco. Borrowing classical blowup and curvature estimates from geometric analysis, as well as novel Allen-Cahn curvature estimates due to Wang-Wei, we manage to study the fine structure of potential singular points at the diffuse level, and show that the problem reduces to that of understanding "entire" singularity models constructed by del Pino-Kowalczyk-Pacard with Morse index 1. The argument is completed by a Morse index estimate on these singularity models.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.05946

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zbMATH Keywords

minimal surfacesMorse indexmin-max procedureAllen-Cahn energy functional

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Semilinear elliptic equations (35J61) Variational methods for second-order elliptic equations (35J20) Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10)

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