Interface dynamics in semilinear wave equations

DOI10.1007/S00220-019-03632-ZMaRDI QIDQ2297306zbMATHOpenAlexWikidataFDO

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)

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

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)

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.

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