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Stability of the saddle solutions for the Allen-Cahn equation

Analysis of PDEs 2020-01-22 v1 Differential Geometry

Abstract

We are concerned with the saddle solutions of the Allen-Cahn equation constructed by Cabr\'{e} and Terra \cite{C,C2} in R2m\mathbb{R}^{2m}% =\mathbb{R}^{m}\times\mathbb{R}^{m}. These solutions vanish precisely on the Simons cone. The existence and uniqueness of saddle solution are shown in \cite{C,C2,C1}. Regarding the stability, Schatzman \cite{Sch} proved that the saddle solution is unstable for m=1,m=1, Cabr\'{e} \cite{C1} showed the instability for m=2,3m=2,3 and stability for m7m\geq7. This has left open the case of m=4,5,6m=4,5,6. In this paper we show that the saddle solutions are stable when m=4,5,6m=4,5,6, thereby confirming Cabr\'{e}'s conjecture in \cite{C1}. The conjecture that saddle solutions in dimensions 2m82m\geq8 should be global minimizers of the energy functional remains open.

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@article{arxiv.2001.07356,
  title  = {Stability of the saddle solutions for the Allen-Cahn equation},
  author = {Yong Liu and Kelei Wang and Juncheng Wei},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.07356},
  year   = {2020}
}

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