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Unstable crystalline Wulff shapes in 3D

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Abstract

We investigate the stability of the evolution by anysotropic and crystalline curvature starting from an initial surface equal to the Wulff shape. It is well known that the Wulff shape evolves selfsimilarly according to the law $V=-\kappa_\phi n_\phi$. Here the index $\phi$ refers to the underlying anisotropy described by the Wulff shape, so that $\kappa_\phi$ is the relative mean curvature and $n_\phi$ is the Cahn-Hoffmann conormal vector field. Such selfsimilar evolution is also known to be stable under small perturbations of the initial surface in the isotropic setting (the Wulff shape is a sphere) or in 2D if the underlying anisotropy is symmetric. We show that this evolution is unstable for some specific choices of the Wulff shape both rotationally symmetric and fully crystalline.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProgress in Nonlinear Differential Equations and Their Applications 51
Pages141-153
Number of pages13
Publication statusPublished - 2002
EventVariational methods for discontinuous structures - Cernobbio
Duration: 4 Jul 20016 Jul 2001

Conference

ConferenceVariational methods for discontinuous structures
CityCernobbio
Period4/7/016/7/01

Keywords

  • crystalline anisotropy
  • selfsimilar evolution
  • wulff shape

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