Metric methods for heteroclinic connections

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Abstract: We consider the problem minintmathbbRfrac12|dotgamma|2+W(gamma)mathopmathopenmathrmdt among curves connecting two given wells of Wgeq0 and we reduce it, following a standard method, to a geodesic problem of the form minint01K(gamma)|dotgamma|mathopmathopenmathrmdt with K=sqrt2W. We then prove existence of curves minimizing this new action just by proving that the distance induced by K is proper (i.e. its closed balls are compact). The assumptions on W are minimal, and the method seems robust enough to be applied in the future to some PDE problems.





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