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Traveling wave solutions for bistable fractional Allen-Cahn equations with a pyramidal front

Analysis of PDEs 2016-04-07 v1

Abstract

Using the method of sub-super-solution, we construct a solution of (Δ)sucuzf(u)=0(-\Delta)^su-cu_z-f(u)=0 on R3\R^3 of pyramidal shape. Here (Δ)s(-\Delta)^s is the fractional Laplacian of sub-critical order 1/2<s<11/2<s<1 and ff is a bistable nonlinearity. Hence, the existence of a traveling wave solution for the parabolic fractional Allen-Cahn equation with pyramidal front is asserted. The maximum of planar traveling wave solutions in various directions gives a sub-solution. A super-solution is roughly defined as the one-dimensional profile composed with the signed distance to a rescaled mollified pyramid. In the main estimate we use an expansion of the fractional Laplacian in the Fermi coordinates.

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@article{arxiv.1604.01448,
  title  = {Traveling wave solutions for bistable fractional Allen-Cahn equations with a pyramidal front},
  author = {Hardy Chan and Juncheng Wei},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1604.01448},
  year   = {2016}
}

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