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Main Authors: Grafke, Tobias, Scholtes, Sebastian, Wagner, Alfred, Westdickenberg, Maria G.
Format: Preprint
Published: 2021
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.03689
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author Grafke, Tobias
Scholtes, Sebastian
Wagner, Alfred
Westdickenberg, Maria G.
author_facet Grafke, Tobias
Scholtes, Sebastian
Wagner, Alfred
Westdickenberg, Maria G.
contents We explore recent progress and open questions concerning local minima and saddle points of the Cahn--Hilliard energy in $d\geq 2$ and the critical parameter regime of large system size and mean value close to $-1$. We employ the String Method of E, Ren, and Vanden-Eijnden -- a numerical algorithm for computing transition pathways in complex systems -- in $d=2$ to gain additional insight into the properties of the minima and saddle point. Motivated by the numerical observations, we adapt a method of Caffarelli and Spruck to study convexity of level sets in $d\geq 2$.
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spellingShingle Numerics and analysis of Cahn--Hilliard critical points
Grafke, Tobias
Scholtes, Sebastian
Wagner, Alfred
Westdickenberg, Maria G.
Analysis of PDEs
Numerical Analysis
35B38, 49J40
We explore recent progress and open questions concerning local minima and saddle points of the Cahn--Hilliard energy in $d\geq 2$ and the critical parameter regime of large system size and mean value close to $-1$. We employ the String Method of E, Ren, and Vanden-Eijnden -- a numerical algorithm for computing transition pathways in complex systems -- in $d=2$ to gain additional insight into the properties of the minima and saddle point. Motivated by the numerical observations, we adapt a method of Caffarelli and Spruck to study convexity of level sets in $d\geq 2$.
title Numerics and analysis of Cahn--Hilliard critical points
topic Analysis of PDEs
Numerical Analysis
35B38, 49J40
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.03689