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Slow motion for gradient systems with equal depth multiple-well potentials

Analysis of PDEs 2009-10-09 v2 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

For scalar reaction-diffusion in one space dimension, it is known for a long time that fronts move with an exponentially small speed for potentials with several distinct mini- mizers. The purpose of this paper is to provide a similar result in the case of systems. Our method relies on a careful study of the evolution of localized energy. This approach has the advantage to relax the preparedness assumptions on the initial datum.

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@article{arxiv.0909.5315,
  title  = {Slow motion for gradient systems with equal depth multiple-well potentials},
  author = {Fabrice Bethuel and Didier Smets and Giandomenico Orlandi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0909.5315},
  year   = {2009}
}
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