On an elliptic system with symmetric potential possessing two global minima

zbMATH Open1352.35037arXiv0810.5009MaRDI QIDQ2829367FDOQ2829367

Giorgio Fusco, Nicholas D. Alikakos

Publication date: 27 October 2016

Published in: Bulletin of the Greek Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider the system {Delta}u - W_u (u) = 0, for u: R^2 -> R^2, W: R^2 -> R, where W_u (u) is a smooth potential, symmetric with respect to the u_1, u_2 axes, possessing two global minima a^pm := (pma,0) and two connections e^pm(x_1) connecting the minima. We prove that there exists an equivariant solution u(x_1, x_2) satisfying u(x_1, x_2) -> a^pm, as x_1 -> pminfiniti, and u(x_1, x_2) -> e^pm(x_1), as x_2 -> pminfiniti. The problem above was first studied by Alama, Bronsard, and Gui under related hypotheses to the ones introduced in the present paper. At the expense of one extra symmetry assumption, we avoid their considerations with the normalized energy and strengthen their result. We also provide examples for W.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0810.5009

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zbMATH Keywords

elliptic systemsymmetric potentialequivariant solution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational methods for elliptic systems (35J50) Singular perturbations in context of PDEs (35B25) Second-order elliptic equations (35J15)

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