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We characterize all minimizers of the vector-valued Allen-Cahn equation in $\mathbb{R}^2$ under the assumption that the potential $W$ has three wells and that the associated degenerate metric does not satisfy the usual strict triangle…
We consider a nonnegative potential $W:\mathbb{R}^2\rightarrow\mathbb{R}$ invariant under the action of the rotation group $C_N$ of the regular polygon with $N$ sides, $N\geq 3$. We assume that $W$ has $N$ nondegenerate zeros and prove the…
We construct an entire solution $U:\mathbb{R}^2\to\mathbb{R}^2$ to the elliptic system \[ \Delta U=\nabla_uW(U), \] where $W:\mathbb{R}^2\to [0,\infty)$ is a `triple-well' potential. This solution is a local minimizer of the associated…
We prove that if a globally minimizing solution to the vectorial Allen-Cahn equation has finite potential energy, then it is a constant.
We investigate the Allen-Cahn system \begin{equation*} \Delta u-W_u(u)=0,\quad u:\mathbb{R}^2\rightarrow\mathbb{R}^2, \end{equation*} where $W\in C^2(\mathbb{R}^2,[0,+\infty))$ is a potential with three global minima. We establish the…
We study the existence of solutions $u:\R^{3}\to\R^{2}$ for the semilinear elliptic systems \begin{equation}\label{eq:abs} -\Delta u(x,y,z)+\nabla W(u(x,y,z))=0, \end{equation} where $W:\R^{2}\to\R$ is a double well symmetric potential. We…
We investigate the Allen-Cahn system \begin{equation*} \Delta u-W_u(u)=0,\quad u:\mathbb{R}^2\rightarrow\mathbb{R}^2, \end{equation*} where $W\in C^2(\mathbb{R}^2,[0,+\infty))$ is a potential with three global minima. We establish the…
We consider a smooth, complete and non-compact Riemannian manifold $(\mathcal{M},g)$ of dimension $d \geq 3$, and we look for positive solutions to the semilinear elliptic equation $$ -\Delta_g w + V w = \alpha f(w) + \lambda w…
We consider a class of semilinear elliptic system of the form $-\Delta u(x,y)+\nabla W(u(x,y))=0,\quad (x,y)\in\R^{2}$ where $W:\R^{2}\to\R$ is a double well non negative symmetric potential. We show, via variational methods, that if the…
We present a systematic study of entire symmetric solutions $u:R^n\rightarrow R^m$ of the vector Allen-Cahn equation $\Delta u-W_u(u)=0, x \in R^n$, where $W:R^m\rightarrow R$ is smooth, symmetric, nonnegative with a finite number of zeros…
This work investigates the vector-valued Allen-Cahn equation with potentials of high-dimensional double-wells under Robin boundary conditions. We establish local-in-time convergence of solutions to mean curvature flow with a fixed contact…
This paper studies minimizing solutions to a two dimensional Allen-Cahn system on the upper half plane, subject to Dirichlet boundary conditions, \begin{equation*} \Delta u-\nabla_u W(u)=0, \quad u: \mathbb{R}_+^2\to \mathbb{R}^2,\ u=u_0…
We prove the existence of multiple solutions to the Allen--Cahn--Hilliard (ACH) vectorial equation (with two equations) involving a triple-well (triphasic) potential with a small volume constraint on a closed parallelizable Riemannian…
We prove the existence of a solution to the semirelativistic Hartree equation $$\sqrt{-\Delta+m^2}u+ V(x) u = A(x)\left( W * |u|^p \right) |u|^{p-2}u $$ under suitable growth assumption on the potential functions $V$ and $A$. In particular,…
We study global variational properties of the space of solutions to $-\varepsilon^2\Delta u + W'(u)=0$ on any closed Riemannian manifold $M$. Our techniques are inspired by recent advances in the variational theory of minimal hypersurfaces…
In this paper, we are concerned with the existence of least energy solutions for the following biharmonic equations: $$\Delta^2 u+(\lambda V(x)-\delta)u=|u|^{p-2}u \quad in\quad \mathbb{R}^N$$ where $N\geq 5, 2<p\leq\frac{2N}{N-4},…
In this paper we consider the Allen-Cahn equation $$ -\Delta u = u-u^3 \ \mbox{in} \ {\mathbb R}^3 $$ We prove that for each $k\in\left( \sqrt{2},+\infty\right),$ there exists a solution to the equation which has growth rate $k$, i.e. $$ \|…
This paper is concerned with the existence of solutions to the problem $$-\left(a+ b\int_{\mathbb{R}^{N}}|\nabla u|^{2} dx \right)\Delta u +V(x)u+\lambda u = |u|^{p-2}u,\ \ x \in \mathbb{R}^{N},\ \ \lambda \in \mathbb{R}^{+} $$ where $a,…
We give multiplicity results for the solutions of a nonlinear elliptic equation, with an asymmetric double well potential of Van der Waals-Allen--Cahn--Hilliard type, satisfying a linear volume constraint, on a bounded Lipschitz domain…
The goal of this paper is to investigate the existence of saddle solutions for some classes of elliptic partial differential equations of the Allen-Cahn type, formulated as follows: \begin{equation*} -div\left(\frac{\nabla…