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Hauptverfasser: Chu, Raymond, Kim, Inwon, Munoz, Sebastian
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Veröffentlicht: 2025
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author Chu, Raymond
Kim, Inwon
Munoz, Sebastian
author_facet Chu, Raymond
Kim, Inwon
Munoz, Sebastian
contents We study the supercooled Stefan problem in arbitrary dimensions. First, we study general solutions and their irregularities, showing generic fractal freezing and nucleation, based on a novel Markovian gluing principle. In contrast, we then establish regularity properties of maximal solutions, which are obtained by maximizing a suitable notion of "average" freezing time. Unexpectedly, we show that maximal solutions have a transition zone that is open modulo a low-dimensional set: this allows us to apply obstacle problem theory for a finer regularity analysis. We further show that maximal solutions are in general non-universal, and we obtain sharp stability results under perturbation of each maximal solution. Lastly, we study maximal solutions in both the radial and the one-dimensional setting. We show that in these cases the maximal solution is universal and minimizes nucleation, in agreement with phenomena observed in the physics literature.
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spellingShingle The supercooled Stefan problem: fractal freezing and the fine structure of maximal solutions
Chu, Raymond
Kim, Inwon
Munoz, Sebastian
Analysis of PDEs
Probability
80A22, 35R35, 60H30
We study the supercooled Stefan problem in arbitrary dimensions. First, we study general solutions and their irregularities, showing generic fractal freezing and nucleation, based on a novel Markovian gluing principle. In contrast, we then establish regularity properties of maximal solutions, which are obtained by maximizing a suitable notion of "average" freezing time. Unexpectedly, we show that maximal solutions have a transition zone that is open modulo a low-dimensional set: this allows us to apply obstacle problem theory for a finer regularity analysis. We further show that maximal solutions are in general non-universal, and we obtain sharp stability results under perturbation of each maximal solution. Lastly, we study maximal solutions in both the radial and the one-dimensional setting. We show that in these cases the maximal solution is universal and minimizes nucleation, in agreement with phenomena observed in the physics literature.
title The supercooled Stefan problem: fractal freezing and the fine structure of maximal solutions
topic Analysis of PDEs
Probability
80A22, 35R35, 60H30
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.10138