Heteroclinic traveling waves of 2D parabolic Allen-Cahn systems

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Authors Ramon Oliver-Bonafoux

Publication date 17 June 2021

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational methods for second-order elliptic equations (35J20) Second-order parabolic systems (35K40) Existence theories for problems in abstract spaces (49J27)

Abstract: n this paper we show the existence of traveling waves $w:[0,+infty)imesmathbb{R}^{2}omathbb{R}^k$ ($kgeq2$) for the parabolic Allen-Cahn system �egin{equation} partial_t w - Delta w = - abla_u V(w) mbox{ in } [0,+infty) imes mathbb{R}^2, end{equation} satisfying some extit{heteroclinic} conditions at infinity. The potential $V$ is a non-negative and smooth multi-well potential, which means that its null set is finite and contains at least two elements. The traveling wave $w$ propagates along the horizontal axis according to a speed $c^{s}tar>0$ and a profile $mathfrakU$. The profile $mathfrakU$ joins as $x_{1}opminfty$ (in a suitable sense) two locally minimizing 1D heteroclinics which have different energies and the speed $c^{s}tar$ satisfies certain uniqueness properties. The proof of variational and, in particular, it requires the assumption of an upper bound, depending on $V$, on the difference between the energies of the 1D heteroclinics.

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