Acta mathematica scientia,Series A ›› 2026, Vol. 46 ›› Issue (5): 1751-1768.

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Steady-State Bifurcation From Double Eigenvalue for the Fourth-Order Cahn-Hilliard Equation on a Bounded Domain

Ruilin Liao(), Fang Guan(), Zhigang Pan*()   

  1. School of Mathematics, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 611756
  • Received:2025-04-27 Revised:2025-10-21 Online:2026-10-26 Published:2026-09-07
  • Contact: Zhigang Pan E-mail:liaorl02@126.com;15528026689@163.com;panzhigang@home.swjtu.edu.cn
  • Supported by:
    NSFC(11901408);NSFC(7251223);Sichuan Provincial Natural Science Youth Fund(22NSFSC16338);Central University Basic Research Innovation Project(2682026CX185)

Abstract:

Employing the normalized Lyapunov-Schmidt reduction method and the spectral decomposition theorem for linear completely continuous fields to investigate the steady-state bifurcation of the Cahn-Hilliard equation. On a square bounded domain, we prove that the fourth-order Cahn-Hilliard equation undergoes steady-state bifurcation at the first eigenvalue (double) under homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions and homogeneous Robin boundary conditions. In such cases, the Cahn-Hilliard equation admits nontrivial solutions. Furthermore, the complete criteria for supercritical and subcritical bifurcations under both boundary conditions, explicit expressions for the bifurcation solutions, regularity of bifurcation solutions and the bifurcation solutions' diagrams were obtained.

Key words: Cahn-Hilliard equation, Dirichlet boundary, Robin boundary, linear completely continuous fields, Lyapunov-Schmidt reduction

CLC Number: 

  • O175.29
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