Entire solutions of the Allen-Cahn equation and complete embedded minimal surfaces of finite total curvature in R^3

DOI10.4310/JDG/1357141507MaRDI QIDQ360062zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Manuel del Pino, Michal Kowalczyk, Juncheng Wei

Publication date 26 August 2013

Published in Journal of Differential Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0902.2047, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.jdg/1357141507

zbMATH Keywords

Allen-Cahn equationbounded solutionsendsentire solutionsfinite Morse indexfinite total curvatureminimal surfaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Entire solutions to PDEs (35B08) Semilinear elliptic equations with Laplacian, bi-Laplacian or poly-Laplacian (35J91) Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10)

Abstract: We consider minimal surfaces $M$ which are complete, embedded and have finite total curvature in $R^3$, and bounded, entire solutions with finite Morse index of the Allen-Cahn equation $Deltau+f(u)=0hboxin{R}^3$. Here $f=-W^{\prime }$ with $W$ bistable and balanced, for instance $W(u)=frac14(1-u^2{)}^2$. We assume that $M$ has $mge2$ ends, and additionally that $M$ is non-degenerate, in the sense that its bounded Jacobi fields are all originated from rigid motions (this is known for instance for a Catenoid and for the Costa-Hoffman-Meeks surface of any genus). We prove that for any small $alpha>0$, the Allen-Cahn equation has a family of bounded solutions depending on $m-1$ parameters distinct from rigid motions, whose level sets are embedded surfaces lying close to the blown-up surface $M_{a}lpha:=alph{a}^{-1}M$, with ends possibly diverging logarithmically from $M_A$. We prove that these solutions are $L^{i}nfty$-{em non-degenerate} up to rigid motions, and find that their Morse index coincides with the index of the minimal surface. Our construction suggests parallels of De Giorgi conjecture for general bounded solutions of finite Morse index.

Review text

This is an excellent research report which contains some novel results regarding entire solutions of the Allen-Cahn equation, and their geometric meaning. The authors also provide an at-length survey on minimal surfaces \(M\) which are complete, embedded and finite total curvature, and further consider the non-degenerate ones, with \(m\geq 2\) ends. They prove that under certain circumstances, the Allen-Cahn equation has a family of bounded solutions depending on \(m-1\) parameters distinct from rigid motions, whose level sets are embedded surfaces lying close to a blown up surface (with ends possibly diverging logarithmically). They also prove that these solutions are non-degenerate up to rigid motions, and find that their Morse index coincides with the index of the minimal surface. The construction they provide is in some sense parallel to the De Giorgi conjecture for general bounded solutions of finite Morse index.

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