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We show by a formal asymptotic expansion that level sets of solutions of a time-fractional Allen-Cahn equation evolve by a geometric flow whose normal velocity is a positive power of the mean curvature. This connection is quite intriguing,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-03-29 Serena Dipierro , Matteo Novaga , Enrico Valdinoci

We analyze the convergence rates to a planar interface in the Mullins-Sekerka model by applying a relaxation method based on relationships among distance, energy, and dissipation. The relaxation method was developed by two of the authors in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-07 Olga Chugreeva , Felix Otto , Maria G. Westdickenberg

We study statistical inference and distributionally robust solution methods for stochastic optimization problems, focusing on confidence intervals for optimal values and solutions that achieve exact coverage asymptotically. We develop a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-07-03 John Duchi , Peter Glynn , Hongseok Namkoong

We introduce a mean-field framework for the study of systems of interacting particles sharing a conserved quantity. The work generalises and unites the existing fields of asset-exchange models, often applied to socio-economic systems, and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-06-14 Dominic T Robson , Andreas CW Baas , Alessia Annibale

We will prove that solutions of the Allen-Cahn equations that satisfy the equipartition can be transformed into solutions of the Euler equations with constant pressure. As a consequence, we obtain De Giorgi type results, that is, the level…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-04-27 Dimitrios Gazoulis

It is known in \cite{beccari} that the standard explicit Euler-type scheme (such as the exponential Euler and the linear-implicit Euler schemes) with a uniform timestep, though computationally efficient, may diverge for the stochastic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-14 Chuchu Chen , Tonghe Dang , Jialin Hong

The study of long-term dynamics for numerical solutions of nonlinear evolution equations, particularly phase field models, has consistently garnered considerable attention. The Cahn-Hilliard (CH) equation is one of the most important phase…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-15 Danni Zhang , Dongling Wang

A novel local evolution equation for one-dimensional interfaces is derived in the context of erosion by ion beam sputtering. We present numerical simulations of this equation which show interrupted coarsening in which an ordered cell…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Javier Muñoz-García , Rodolfo Cuerno , Mario Castro

We study the metastable dynamics of a discretised version of the mass-conserving stochastic Allen-Cahn equation. Consider a periodic one-dimensional lattice with $N$ sites, and attach to each site a real-valued variable, which can be…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-01-12 Nils Berglund , Sébastien Dutercq

In this article we investigate the existence of a solution to a semilinear, elliptic, partial differential equation with distributional coefficients and data. The problem we consider is a generalization of the Lichnerowicz equation that one…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-03-20 Michael Holst , Caleb Meier

In this short note, we present new observations and examples concerning the existence and rigidity of solutions to the Allen-Cahn equation with degenerate minimal hypersurfaces as their limit interfaces.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-04-19 Jingwen Chen , Pedro Gaspar

Motivated by several models introduced in the physics literature to study the nonequilibrium coarsening dynamics of one-dimensional systems, we consider a large class of "hierarchical coalescence processes" (HCP). An HCP consists of an…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-08-08 Alessandra Faggionato , Fabio Martinelli , Cyril Roberto , Cristina Toninelli

The Allen-Cahn equation, coupled with dynamic boundary conditions, has recently received a good deal of attention. The new issue of this paper is the setting of a rather general mass constraint which may involve either the solution inside…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Pierluigi Colli , Takeshi Fukao

In this paper we derive a general linearized theory for first-order continuum dynamics on manifolds with particular application to incompatible elasticity. We adopt a global approach viewing the equations of motion as a $1$-form on the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-10-31 Raz Kupferman , Elihu Olami

The paper gives a comprehensive study of inertial manifolds for semilinear parabolic equations and their smoothness using the spatial averaging method suggested by G. Sell and J. Mallet-Paret. We present a universal approach which covers…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-30 Anna Kostianko , Xinhua Li , Chunyou Sun , Sergey Zelik

We consider numerical solutions for the Allen-Cahn equation with standard double well potential and periodic boundary conditions. Surprisingly it is found that using standard numerical discretizations with high precision computational…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-15 Dong Li , Chaoyu Quan , Tao Tang , Wen Yang

We study how the propagation speed of interfaces in the Allen-Cahn phase field model for phase transformations in solids consisting of the elasticity equations and the Allen-Cahn equation depends on two parameters of the model. The two…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-04-04 Hans-Dieter Alber

We propose experimentally feasible ways to probe universal features of absorbing phase transitions from two different approaches, both based on numerical validations. On one hand, we numerically study a probability distribution of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-12-20 Keiichi Tamai , Masaki Sano

We study a coarsening process of one-dimensional cell complexes. We show that if cell boundaries move with velocities proportional to the difference in size of neighboring cells, then the average cell size grows at a prescribed exponential…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-12-03 Emanuel Lazar , Robin Pemantle

We improve on recent results that establish the existence of solutions of certain semilinear wave equations possessing an interface that roughly sweeps out a timelike surface of vanishing mean curvature in Minkowski space. Compared to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-21 Mohammad El Smaily , Robert L. Jerrard