The Allen-Cahn equation with generic initial datum

DOI10.1007/S00440-023-01198-5MaRDI QIDQ6158593zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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Publication date 20 June 2023

Published in Zeitschrift für Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie und Verwandte Gebiete (Search for Journal in Brave)

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Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.08426

zbMATH Keywords

Allen-Cahn equationcoarseningmean curvature flowwhite noise

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs with randomness, stochastic partial differential equations (35R60) Flows related to mean curvature (53E10) Stochastic partial differential equations (aspects of stochastic analysis) (60H15) White noise theory (60H40)

Abstract: We consider the Allen-Cahn equation $partia{l}_{t}u-Deltau=u-u^3$ with a rapidly mixing Gaussian field as initial condition. We show that provided that the amplitude of the initial condition is not too large, the equation generates fronts described by nodal sets of the Bargmann-Fock Gaussian field, which then evolve according to mean curvature flow.

Review text

The authors consider the Allen-Cahn equation \(\partial_{t}u- \Delta u = u- u^{3}\) with a rapidly mixing Gaussian field as an initial condition. They study the scaling limit of such an equation and show that after a suitably long time the dynamics are well approximated by a certain class of Gaussian nodal sets which evolve under a mean curvature flow. While ideally one would like to consider the white noise initial data, this is not possible in this setting since the scaling exponent of the white noise is below a critical exponent for which one might expect any form of a local well-posedness for the equation. The authors show that if the amplitude of the initial condition is not too large, the equation generates fronts described by nodal sets of the Bargmann-Fock Gaussian field, which then evolve according to a mean curvature flow.

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