Metric methods for heteroclinic connections in infinite dimensional spaces

DOI10.1512/IUMJ.2020.69.7869zbMATH Open1445.35156arXiv1709.02117OpenAlexW2750759818MaRDI QIDQ3304692FDOQ3304692

Authors: Antonin Monteil, Filippo Santambrogio 

Publication date: 3 August 2020

Published in: Indiana University Mathematics Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider the minimal action problem min int_R 1/2 |$gamma$'|^2 + W($gamma$) dt among curves lying in a non-locally-compact metric space and connecting two given zeros of W $ge$ 0. For this problem, the optimal curves are usually called heteroclinic connections. We reduce it, following a standard method, to a geodesic problem of the form min int_0^1 K($gamma$)|$gamma$'| dt with K = (2W)^(1/2). We then prove existence of curves minimizing this new action under some suitable compactness assumptions on K, which are minimal. The method allows to solve some PDE problems in unbounded domains, in particular in two variables x, y, when y = t and when the metric space is an L^2 space in the first variable x, and the potential W includes a Dirichlet energy in the same variable. We then apply this technique to the problem of connecting, in a functional space, two different heteroclinic connections between two points of the Euclidean space, as it was previously studied by Alama-Bronsard-Gui and by Schatzman more than fifteen years ago. With a very different technique, we are able to recover the same results, and to weaken some assumptions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.02117

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zbMATH Keywords

elliptic PDEsgeodesicslack of compactnessdouble-well potentials

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational methods for elliptic systems (35J50) Methods involving semicontinuity and convergence; relaxation (49J45) Metric spaces, metrizability (54E35) Existence theories for problems in abstract spaces (49J27)

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