Clustered interior phase transition layers for an inhomogeneous Allen-Cahn equationin higher dimensional domains

Jun Yang; Xiaolin Yang

doi:10.3934/cpaa.2013.12.303

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2013, Volume 12, Issue 1: 303-340. Doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2013.12.303

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Clustered interior phase transition layers for an inhomogeneous Allen-Cahn equation in higher dimensional domains

Jun Yang^1, and
Xiaolin Yang^2,

1.
College of Mathematics and Computational Sciences, Shenzhen University, Nanhai Ave 3688, Shenzhen 518060
2.
College of Mathematics and Computer Sciences, Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081

Received: May 31, 2011

Revised: November 30, 2011

Published: December 2012

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For a singularly perturbed equation of inhomogeneous Allen-Cahn type with positive potential function in high dimensional general domain, we prove the existence of solutions, at least for some sequence of the positive parameter, which have clustered phase transition layers with mass centered close to a smooth closed stationary and non-degenerate hypersurface. Moreover, the interaction between neighboring layers is governed by a type of Jacobi-Toda system.

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