Global stability for solutions to the exponential PDE describing epitaxial growth (Q2313926)

From authors' abstract: ``We prove the global existence, uniqueness, optimal large time decay rates, and uniform gain of analyticity for the exponential evolution PDE \(h_t=\Delta e^{-\Delta h}\) in the whole space \(\mathbb{R}^d_x\).'' The model offers a particular description of epitaxial growth. The exponential structure occurs because of an ansatz that involves a curvature-dependent mobility. ``We assume the initial data is of medium size in the Wiener algebra \(A(\mathbb{R}^d)\); we use the initial condition \(\Delta h_0 \in A(\mathbb{R}^d)\) which is scale-invariant with respect to the invariant scaling of the exponential PDE. This exponential PDE was derived in [\textit{J. Krug} et al., ``Adatom mobility for the solid-on-solid model'', Z. Phys., B 97, No. 2, 281--291 (1995; \url{doi:10.1007/BF01307478})] and more recently in [\textit{J. M. Marzuola} and \textit{J. Weare}, ``Relaxation of a family of broken-bond crystal-surface models'', Phys. Rev. E (3) 88, 032403 (2013; \url{doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.88.032403})].''