## Analysis & PDE

• Anal. PDE
• Volume 9, Number 7 (2016), 1737-1772.

### A double well potential system

#### Abstract

A semilinear elliptic system of PDEs with a nonlinear term of double well potential type is studied in a cylindrical domain. The existence of solutions heteroclinic to the bottom of the wells as minima of the associated functional is established. Further applications are given, including the existence of multitransition solutions as local minima of the functional.

#### Article information

Source
Anal. PDE, Volume 9, Number 7 (2016), 1737-1772.

Dates
Revised: 26 June 2016
Accepted: 30 July 2016
First available in Project Euclid: 16 November 2017

https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.apde/1510843356

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.2140/apde.2016.9.1737

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR3570237

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
06652381

#### Citation

Byeon, Jaeyoung; Montecchiari, Piero; Rabinowitz, Paul H. A double well potential system. Anal. PDE 9 (2016), no. 7, 1737--1772. doi:10.2140/apde.2016.9.1737. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.apde/1510843356

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