On well-posedness, stability, and bifurcation for the axisymmetric surface diffusion flow

DOI10.1137/120883505zbMATH Open1282.35218OpenAlexW3099386575MaRDI QIDQ2870592FDOQ2870592

Authors Jeremy Lecrone, Gieri Simonett 

Publication date 21 January 2014

Published in SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1209.3998

zbMATH Keywords

nonlinear stabilityperiodic boundary conditionsimplicit function theoremmaximal regularityreal analytic semiflow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stability in context of PDEs (35B35) Continuous and differentiable maps in nonlinear functional analysis (46T20) Bifurcations in context of PDEs (35B32) Quasilinear parabolic equations with mean curvature operator (35K93)

Abstract: In this article, we study the axisymmetric surface diffusion flow (ASD), a fourth-order geometric evolution law. In particular, we prove that ASD generates a real analytic semiflow in the space of (2 + alpha)-little-H"older regular surfaces of revolution embedded in R^3 and satisfying periodic boundary conditions. We also give conditions for global existence of solutions and prove that solutions are real analytic in time and space. Further, we investigate the geometric properties of solutions to ASD. Utilizing a connection to axisymmetric surfaces with constant mean curvature, we characterize the equilibria of ASD. Then, focusing on the family of cylinders, we establish results regarding stability, instability and bifurcation behavior, with the radius acting as a bifurcation parameter for the problem.

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