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On the Entropy of Parabolic Allen-Cahn Equation

Differential Geometry 2021-02-10 v3 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

We define a (mean curvature flow) entropy for Radon measures in Rn\mathbb{R}^n or in a compact manifold. Moreover, we prove a monotonicity formula of the entropy of the measures associated with the parabolic Allen-Cahn equations. If the ambient manifold is a compact manifold with non-negative sectional curvature and parallel Ricci curvature, this is a consequence of a new monotonicity formula for the parabolic Allen-Cahn equation. As an application, we show that when the entropy of the initial data is small enough (less than twice of the energy of the one-dimensional standing wave), the limit measure of the parabolic Allen-Cahn equation has unit density for all future time.

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@article{arxiv.1812.08894,
  title  = {On the Entropy of Parabolic Allen-Cahn Equation},
  author = {Ao Sun},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.08894},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

13 pages. Accepted by Interfaces and Free Boundaries