Existence Theorems for a Crystal Surface Model Involving the p-Laplace Operator

DOI10.1137/17M1157908zbMATH Open1398.35097arXiv1711.07405OpenAlexW2963866772MaRDI QIDQ3177740FDOQ3177740

Xiangsheng Xu

Publication date: 2 August 2018

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

Abstract: The manufacturing of crystal films lies at the heart of modern nanotechnology. How to accurately predict the motion of a crystal surface is of fundamental importance. Many continuum models have been developed for this purpose, including a number of PDE models, which are often obtained as the continuum limit of a family of kinetic Monte Carlo models of crystal surface relaxation that includes both the solid-on-solid and discrete Gaussian models. In this paper we offer an analytical perspective into some of these models. To be specific, we study the existence of a weak solution to the boundary value problem for the equation $-Delta{e}^{-mboxdivleft(|ablau{|}^{p-2}ablauight)}+au=f$, where $p>1,a>0$ are given numbers and $f$ is a given function. This problem is derived from a crystal surface model proposed by J.L.~Marzuola and J.~Weare (2013 Physical Review, E 88, 032403). The mathematical challenge is due to the fact that the principal term in our equation is an exponential function of a p-Laplacian. Existence of a suitably-defined weak solution is established under the assumptions that $pin(1,2],Nleq4$, and $fin{W}^{1,p}$. Our investigations reveal that the key to our existence assertion is how to control the set where $-mboxdivleft(|ablau{|}^{p-2}ablauight)$ is $pminfty$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.07405

zbMATH Keywords

crystal surface modelexponential function of a \(p\)-Laplacian

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Existence problems for PDEs: global existence, local existence, non-existence (35A01) Quasilinear elliptic equations with (p)-Laplacian (35J92)

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