Global-in-time Gevrey regularity solution for a class of bistable gradient flows

Nan  Chen; Cheng Wang; Steven  Wise

doi:10.3934/dcdsb.2016018

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2016, Volume 21, Issue 6: 1689-1711. Doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2016018

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Global-in-time Gevrey regularity solution for a class of bistable gradient flows

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Department of Mathematics and Center for Atmosphere Ocean Science, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, New York, NY 10012
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Department of Mathematics, The University of Massachusetts, North Dartmouth, MA 02747-2300
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Mathematics Department, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996

Received: July 31, 2015

Revised: February 29, 2016

Published: July 2016

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In this paper, we prove the existence and uniqueness of a Gevrey regularity solution for a class of nonlinear bistable gradient flows, where with the energy may be decomposed into purely convex and concave parts. Example equations include certain epitaxial thin film growth models and phase field crystal models. The energy dissipation law implies a bound in the leading Sobolev norm. The polynomial structure of the nonlinear terms in the chemical potential enables us to derive a local-in-time solution with Gevrey regularity, with the existence time interval length dependent on a certain $H^m$ norm of the initial data. A detailed Sobolev estimate for the gradient equations results in a uniform-in-time-bound of that $H^m$ norm, which in turn establishes the existence of a global-in-time solution with Gevrey regularity.

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