Optimal relaxation of bump-like solutions of the one-dimensional Cahn-Hilliard equation

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DOI10.1080/03605302.2021.1987458zbMATH Open1491.35031arXiv2104.14004OpenAlexW3211565080MaRDI QIDQ5067722FDOQ5067722


Authors: Sarah Biesenbach, Richard Schubert, Maria G. Westdickenberg Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 4 April 2022

Published in: Communications in Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper we derive optimal relaxation rates for the Cahn-Hilliard equation on the one-dimensional torus and the line. We consider initial conditions with a finite (but not small) L1-distance to an appropriately defined bump. The result extends the relaxation method developed previously for a single transition layer (the ``kink) to the case of two transition layers (the ``bump). As in the previous work, the tools include Nash-type inequalities, duality arguments, and Schauder estimates. For both the kink and the bump, the energy gap is translation invariant and its decay alone cannot specify to which member of the family of minimizers the solution converges. Whereas in the case of the kink, the conserved quantity singles out the longtime limit, in the case of a bump, a new argument is needed. On the torus, we quantify the (initially algebraic and ultimately exponential) convergence to the bump that is the longtime limit; on the line, the bump-like states are merely metastable and we quantify the initial algebraic relaxation behavior.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.14004




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