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This paper is concerned with the motion of a time dependent hypersurface that evolves by mean curvature flow with a a volume constraint. Phase field approximation of this motion leads to the well known nonlocal Allen--Cahn equation. Here we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-04-02 Elie Bretin , Morgan Brassel

A well-known conjecture of De Giorgi -- motivated by analogy with the Bernstein problem for minimal surfaces -- asserts the rigidity of monotone solutions to the Allen--Cahn equation in $\mathbb{R}^{d+1}$, with $d\leq 7$. We establish close…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-04 Enric Florit-Simon

We define a (mean curvature flow) entropy for Radon measures in $\mathbb{R}^n$ 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…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-02-10 Ao Sun

The Allen-Cahn equation is a semilinear PDE which is deeply linked to the theory of minimal hypersurfaces via a singular limit. We prove curvature estimates and strong sheet separation estimates for stable solutions (building on recent work…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-09-18 Otis Chodosh , Christos Mantoulidis

The free boundary Allen--Cahn equation $\Delta u=0$ in $\{|u|<1\}$, $|\nabla u|=1/\varepsilon$ on $\partial\{|u|<1\}$ has recently attracted considerable attention because it retains the essential features of the classical Allen--Cahn…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Jingeon An , Kiichi Tashiro

We consider the isoperimetric problem defined on the whole $\mathbb{R}^n$ by the Allen--Cahn energy functional. For non-degenerate double well potentials, we prove sharp quantitative stability inequalities of quadratic type which are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-26 Francesco Maggi , Daniel Restrepo

We study the gradient flow of the Allen-Cahn equation with fixed boundary contact angle in Euclidean domains for initial data with bounded energy. Under general assumptions, we establish both interior and boundary convergence properties for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-08 Kobe Marshall-Stevens , Mayu Takada , Yoshihiro Tonegawa , Myles Workman

We show that certain functions whose nodal sets lie near a fixed nondegenerate minimal hypersurface satisfy a strong min-max principle for the Allen--Cahn energy which is analogous to the strong min-max principle for non-degenerate minimal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-04-17 Érico Melo Silva

This paper establishes bounds on the homogenized surface tension for a heterogeneous Allen-Cahn energy functional in a periodic medium. The approach is based on relating the homogenized energy to a purely geometric variational problem…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-24 Rustum Choksi , Irene Fonseca , Jessica Lin , Raghavendra Venkatraman

We establish existence and non-existence results for entire solutions to the fractional Allen-Cahn equation in $\mathbb R^3$, which vanish on helicoids and are invariant under screw-motion. In addition, we prove that helicoids are surfaces…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-09-03 Eleonora Cinti , Juan Davila , Manuel Del Pino

We consider the varifold associated to the Allen--Cahn phase transition problem in $\mathbb R^{n+1}$(or $n+1$-dimensional Riemannian manifolds with bounded curvature) with integral $L^{q_0}$ bounds on the Allen--Cahn mean curvature (first…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-06-28 Huy The Nguyen , Shengwen Wang

In this paper, we consider a class of coupled systems of PDEs, denoted by (ACE)$_{\varepsilon}$ for $ \varepsilon \geq 0 $. For each $ \varepsilon \geq 0 $, the system (ACE)$_{\varepsilon}$ consists of an Allen-Cahn type equation in a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-10-31 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Ryota Nakayashiki , Ken Shirakawa

The convex-concave splitting discretization of the Allen-Cahn is easy to implement and guaranteed to be energy decreasing even for large time-steps. We analyze the time-stepping scheme for a large class of potentials which includes the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-24 Patrick Dondl , Akwum Onwunta , Ludwig Striet , Stephan Wojtowytsch

In this article we study the second variation of the energy functional associated to the Allen-Cahn equation on closed manifolds. Extending well known analogies between the gradient theory of phase transitions and the theory of minimal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-10-16 Pedro Gaspar

We study the solutions of a generalized Allen-Cahn equation deduced from a Landau energy functional, endowed with a non-constant higher order stiffness. We analytically solve the stationary problem and deduce the existence of so-called…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-03-03 Emilio N. M. Cirillo , Nicoletta Ianiro , Giulio Sciarra

The goal of this paper is to study the slow motion of solutions of the nonlocal Allen-Cahn equation in a bounded domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^n$, for $n > 1$. The initial data is assumed to be close to a configuration whose interface…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-12-08 Ryan Murray , Matteo Rinaldi

This article is mainly devoted to the asymptotic analysis of a fractional version of the (elliptic) Allen-Cahn equation in a bounded domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^n$, with or without a source term in the right hand side of the equation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-10-31 Vincent Millot , Yannick Sire , Kelei Wang

We are concerned with solutions to the parabolic Allen-Cahn equation in Riemannian manifolds. For a general class of initial condition we show non positivity of the limiting energy discrepancy. This in turn allows to prove almost…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-08-05 Adriano Pisante , Fabio Punzo

The well-known cubic Allen-Cahn (AC) equation is a simple gradient dynamics (or variational) model for a nonconserved order parameter field. After revising main literature results for the occuring different types of moving fronts, we employ…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-06-24 Fenna Stegemerten , Svetlana Gurevich , Uwe Thiele

Boundary correlation functions provide insight into the emergence of an effective geometry in higher spin gravity duals of O(N) or U(N) symmetric field theories. On a compact manifold, the singlet constraint leads to nontrivial dynamics at…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-03-08 Irene Amado , Bo Sundborg , Larus Thorlacius , Nico Wintergerst