The Wulff problem for diffuse interfaces

DOI10.4171/ZAA/1323MaRDI QIDQ2460705zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Yanyan Li

Publication date 13 November 2007

Published in Zeitschrift für Analysis und ihre Anwendungen (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.4171/ZAA/1323

zbMATH Keywords

finite volume instantonnonlocal free energy functionaltunneling

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Energy minimization in equilibrium problems in solid mechanics (74G65) Transformations involving diffusion in solids (74N25)

Review text

Summary: We consider the nonlocal free energy functional defined by \textit{G. Bellettini} et al. [J. Math. Phys. 46, No. 8, 1--31 (2005)], and we study its infimum over the class of functions with zero average (Wulff problem). We prove that the infimum is a minimum achieved on a particular antisymmetric strictly increasing function called the finite volume instanton. The result can be interpreted as an extension ot the Wulff theorem to a non-sharp interface.

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