Density estimates for degenerate double-well potentials

DOI10.1137/17M114933XMaRDI QIDQ4562018zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Serena Dipierro, Alberto Farina, Enrico Valdinoci

Publication date 14 December 2018

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.08888

zbMATH Keywords

Cahn-Hilliard equationAllen-Cahn equationnon-degeneracy assumptionsphase coexistence models

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Semilinear elliptic equations (35J61) Variational methods for second-order elliptic equations (35J20) Quasilinear elliptic equations (35J62) Degenerate elliptic equations (35J70) Singular elliptic equations (35J75) Second-order elliptic equations (35J15)

Abstract: We consider a general energy functional for phase coexistence models, which comprises the case of Banach norms in the gradient term plus a double-well potential. We establish density estimates for $Q$-minima. Namely, the state parameters close to both phases are proved to occupy a considerable portion of the ambient space. From this, we obtain the uniform convergence of the level sets to the limit interface in the sense of Hausdorff distance. The main novelty of these results lies in the fact that we do not assume the double-well potential to be non-degenerate in the vicinity of the minima. As far as we know, these types of density results for degenerate potentials are new even for minimizers and even in the case of semilinear equations, but our approach can comprise at the same time quasilinear equations, $Q$-minima and general energy functionals.

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