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Bounded solutions to the Allen-Cahn equation with level sets of any compact topology

Analysis of PDEs 2015-06-03 v1 Differential Geometry

Abstract

We make use of the flexibility of infinite-index solutions to the Allen-Cahn equation to show that, given any compact hypersurface Σ\Sigma of R^d, with d4d\geq 4, there is a bounded entire solution of the Allen-Cahn equation on R^d whose zero level set has a connected component diffeomorphic (and arbitrarily close) to a rescaling of Σ\Sigma. More generally, we prove the existence of solutions with a finite number of compact connected components of prescribed topology in their zero level sets.

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@article{arxiv.1506.00940,
  title  = {Bounded solutions to the Allen-Cahn equation with level sets of any compact topology},
  author = {Alberto Enciso and Daniel Peralta-Salas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.00940},
  year   = {2015}
}

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12 pages