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Multiplicity of layered solutions for Allen-Cahn systems with symmetric double well potential

Analysis of PDEs 2013-09-13 v1

Abstract

We study the existence of solutions u:R3R2u:\R^{3}\to\R^{2} for the semilinear elliptic systems \begin{equation}\label{eq:abs} -\Delta u(x,y,z)+\nabla W(u(x,y,z))=0, \end{equation} where W:R2RW:\R^{2}\to\R is a double well symmetric potential. We use variational methods to show, under generic non degenerate properties of the set of one dimensional heteroclinic connections between the two minima \a±\a_{\pm} of WW, that (\ref{eq:abs}) has infinitely many geometrically distinct solutions uC2(R3,R2)u\in C^{2}(\R^{3},\R^{2}) which satisfy u(x,y,z)\a±u(x,y,z)\to \a_{\pm} as x±{x\to\pm\infty} uniformly with respect to (y,z)R2(y,z)\in\R^{2} and which exhibit dihedral symmetries with respect to the variables yy and zz. We also characterize the asymptotic behaviour of these solutions as (y,z)+|(y,z)|\to +\infty.

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@article{arxiv.1309.3104,
  title  = {Multiplicity of layered solutions for Allen-Cahn systems with symmetric double well potential},
  author = {Francesca G. Alessio and Piero Montecchiari},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1309.3104},
  year   = {2013}
}