A Degenerate Isoperimetric Problem and Traveling Waves to a Bistable Hamiltonian System

DOI10.1002/CPA.21615zbMATH Open1365.49042arXiv1504.00423OpenAlexW2963866928MaRDI QIDQ2958191FDOQ2958191

Authors: Lia Bronsard, Andres Contreras, Jiri Dadok, Peter Sternberg, Stan Alama 

Publication date: 1 February 2017

Published in: Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We analyze a non-standard isoperimetric problem in the plane associated with a metric having degenerate conformal factor at two points. Under certain assumptions on the conformal factor, we establish the existence of curves of least length under a constraint associated with enclosed Euclidean area. As a motivation for and application of this isoperimetric problem, we identify these isoperimetric curves, appropriately parametrized, as traveling wave solutions to a bi-stable Hamiltonian system of PDE's. We also determine the existence of a maximal propagation speed for these traveling waves through an explicit upper bound depending on the conformal factor.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1504.00423

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zbMATH Keywords

conformal factortraveling waveisoperimetric problembistable Hamiltonian system

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational problems in a geometric measure-theoretic setting (49Q20) Variational problems in applications to the theory of geodesics (problems in one independent variable) (58E10) Hamilton's principle (70H25)

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