Interface dynamics in semilinear wave equations

DOI10.1007/S00220-019-03632-ZzbMATH Open1437.35020arXiv1808.02471OpenAlexW2992120299WikidataQ126666909 ScholiaQ126666909MaRDI QIDQ2297306FDOQ2297306

Authors: Monica Musso, Manuel del Pino, Robert L. Jerrard 

Publication date: 18 February 2020

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider the wave equation $varepsilo{n}^2(-partia{l}_t^2+Delta)u+f(u)=0$ for $0<varepsilonll1$, where $f$ is the derivative of a balanced, double-well potential, the model case being $f(u)=u-u^3$. For equations of this form, we construct solutions that exhibit an interface of thickness $O(varepsilon)$ that separates regions where the solution is $O(varepsilo{n}^k)$ close to $pm1$, and that is close to a timelike hypersurface of vanishing {em Minkowskian} mean curvature. This provides a Minkowskian analog of the numerous results that connect the Euclidean Allen-Cahn equation and minimal surfaces or the parabolic Allen-Cahn equation and motion by mean curvature. Compared to earlier results of the same character, we develop a new constructive approach that applies to a larger class of nonlinearities and yields much more precise information about the solutions under consideration.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.02471

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zbMATH Keywords

balanced double-well potentialtimelike hypersurface of vanishing Minkowskian mean curvature

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Singular perturbations in context of PDEs (35B25) Initial value problems for second-order hyperbolic equations (35L15) Second-order semilinear hyperbolic equations (35L71)

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