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Clifford Tori and the singularly perturbed Cahn-Hilliard equation

Analysis of PDEs 2015-09-04 v1

Abstract

In this paper we construct entire solutions uεu_{\varepsilon} to the Cahn-Hilliard equation ε2Δ(ε2Δu+W(u))+W"(u)(ε2Δu+W(u))=0-\varepsilon^{2}\Delta(-\varepsilon^{2}\Delta u+W^{'}(u))+W^{"}(u)(-\varepsilon^{2}\Delta u+W^{'}(u))=0, under the volume constraint R3(1uε)dx=42π2\int_{\mathbb{R}^{3}}(1-u_{\varepsilon})dx=4\sqrt{2}\pi^{2}, whose nodal set approaches the Clifford Torus, that is the Torus with radii of ratio 1/21/\sqrt{2} embedded in R3\mathbb{R}^{3}, as ε0\varepsilon\to 0. What is crucial is that the Clifford Torus is a Willmore hypersurface and it is non-degenerate, up to conformal transformations. The proof is based on the Lyapunov-Schmidt reduction and on careful geometric expansions of the laplacian.

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@article{arxiv.1509.01063,
  title  = {Clifford Tori and the singularly perturbed Cahn-Hilliard equation},
  author = {Matteo Rizzi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1509.01063},
  year   = {2015}
}