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A note on the Morse index of 2k-ended phase transitions in R^2

Analysis of PDEs 2017-08-22 v2 Differential Geometry

Abstract

We show that the Morse index of every 2k-ended solution of the Allen-Cahn equation in R^2 is >= k-1. This bound is expected to be sharp.

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@article{arxiv.1705.07580,
  title  = {A note on the Morse index of 2k-ended phase transitions in R^2},
  author = {Christos Mantoulidis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.07580},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

This paper has been superseded by arXiv:1706.05946. Minor misprints corrected