Existence and properties of certain critical points of the Cahn-Hilliard energy

DOI10.1512/IUMJ.2017.66.6143MaRDI QIDQ4599334zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Michael Gelantalis, Alfred Wagner, Maria G. Westdickenberg

Publication date 29 December 2017

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.00061

zbMATH Keywords

quantitative isoperimetric inequalityCahn-Hilliard equationgamma limitCahn-Hilliard model on the torus

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetries, invariants, etc. in context of PDEs (35B06) Singular perturbations in context of PDEs (35B25) Critical points of functionals in context of PDEs (e.g., energy functionals) (35B38) Variational methods for second-order elliptic equations (35J20) Variational inequalities (49J40)

Abstract: The Cahn-Hilliard energy landscape on the torus is explored in the critical regime of large system size and mean value close to $-1$. Existence and properties of a "droplet-shaped" local energy minimizer are established. A standard mountain pass argument leads to the existence of a saddle point whose energy is equal to the energy barrier, for which a quantitative bound is deduced. In addition, finer properties of the local minimizer and appropriately defined constrained minimizers are deduced. The proofs employ the $Gamma$-limit (identified in a previous work), quantitative isoperimetric inequalities, variational arguments, and Steiner symmetrization.

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