Heteroclinic travelling waves of gradient diffusion systems

DOI10.1090/S0002-9947-2010-04987-6MaRDI QIDQ3085129zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Nicholas D. Alikakos, Nikos Katzourakis

Publication date 28 March 2011

Published in Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0712.2800

zbMATH Keywords

one space dimensionvariational characterization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Traveling wave solutions (35C07) Semilinear parabolic equations (35K58)

Abstract: We establish existence of travelling waves to the gradient system $u_t=u_{zz}-ablaW(u)$ connecting two minima of $W$ when $u:Rimes(0,infty)larrow{R}^N$, that is, we establish existence of a pair $$, satisfying [ {{array}{l} U_{xx} - abla W (U) = - c U_x U(pm infty) = a^{pm}, {array}. ] where $a^{pm}$ are local minima of the potential $Win{C}_{extrmloc}^2(R^N)$ with $W(a^{-})<W(a^{+})=0$ and $Ngeq1$. Our method is variational and based on the minimization of the functional $E_c(U)=in{t}_{R}Big1/2|U_x{|}^2+W(U)Big{e}^{cx}dx$ in the appropriate space setup. Following Alikakos-Fusco cite{A-F}, we introduce an artificial constraint to restore compactness and force the desired asymptotic behavior, which we later remove. We provide variational characterizations of the travelling wave and the speed. In particular, we show that $E_c(U)=0$.

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