Existence and positivity of solutions of a fourth‐order nonlinear PDE describing interface fluctuations
Existence and positivity of solutions of a fourth‐order nonlinear PDE describing interface fluctuations
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DOI:
10.1002/cpa.3160470702
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发表时间:
1994-07
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3
通讯作者:
P. Bleher;J. Lebowitz;E. Speer
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作者:
P. Bleher;J. Lebowitz;E. Speer
We study the partial differential equation which arose originally as a scaling limit in the study of interface fluctuations in a certain spin system. In that application x lies in R, but here we study primarily the periodic case x E S'. We establish existence, uniqueness, and regularity of solutions, locally in time, for positive initial data in H' (S' ), and prove the existence of several families of Lyapunov functions for the evolution. From the latter we establish a sharp connection between existence globally in time and positivity preservation: if [O,T*) is a maximal half open interval of existence for a positive solution of the equation, with T' (1 + &)/16r2& then T* = 03 and lim,-m w(r, .) exists and is constant. We discuss also some explicit solutions and propose a generalization to higher dimensions. 0 1994 John Wiley &