The Wulff Problem For Diffuse Interface

Guido Manzi

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Submission date: 23. Jan. 2007
Pages: 19
published in: Zeitschrift fuer Analysis und ihre Anwendungen, 26 (2007) 3, p. 261-275 
DOI number (of the published article): 10.4171/ZAA/1323
Bibtex
MSC-Numbers: 74A50, 82C24
Keywords and phrases: diffuse interface, tunneling
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Abstract:
We consider the non local free energy functional defined in "Bellettini, G., De Masi, A. and E. Presutti: Energy levels of critical points of a nonlocal" and we study its over the class of functions with zero average (Wulff problem). We prove that the is a minimum achieved on a particular antisymmetric strictly increasing function called the finite volume instanton. The result can be interpreted as an extension of the Wulff theorem to a not sharp interface.