A three-dimensional symmetry result for a phase transition equation in the genuinely nonlocal regime

Serena Dipierro , Alberto Farina (1) , Enrico Valdinoci

1 LAMFA - Laboratoire Amiénois de Mathématique Fondamentale et Appliquée - UMR CNRS 7352

We consider bounded solutions of the nonlocal Allen-Cahn equation (-Delta)(s) u = u - u(3) in R-3, under the monotonicity condition. partial derivative(x3) u > 0 and in the genuinely nonlocal regime in which s is an element of (0, 1/2). Under the limit assumptions lim(xn) (->) (-infinity) u(x', x(n)) = - 1 and lim(xn) (->) (+infinity) u(x', x(n)) =1, it has been recently shown in Dipierro et al. (Improvement of flatness for nonlocal phase transitions, 2016) that u is necessarily 1D, i.e. it depends only on one Euclidean variable. The goal of this paper is to obtain a similar result without assuming such limit conditions. This type of results can be seen as nonlocal counterparts of the celebrated conjecture formulated by De Giorgi (Proceedings of the international meeting on recent methods in nonlinear analysis (Rome, 1978), Pitagora, Bologna, pp 131-188, 1979).

Domaines: Mathématiques [math]

Serena Dipierro, Alberto Farina, Enrico Valdinoci. A three-dimensional symmetry result for a phase transition equation in the genuinely nonlocal regime. Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations, 2018, 57 (1), ⟨10.1007/s00526-017-1295-5⟩. ⟨hal-03621413⟩