Catenoidal layers for the Allen-Cahn equation in bounded domains

Abstract

This paper presents a new family of solutions to the singularly perturbed Allen-Cahn equation α2Δu + u(1 − u2) = 0 in a smooth bounded domain Ω ⊂ R3, with Neumann boundary condition and α > 0 a small parameter. These solutions have the property that as α → 0, their level sets collapse onto a bounded portion of a complete embedded minimal surface with finite total curvature intersecting ∂Ω orthogonally and that is non-degenerate respect to ∂Ω. The authors provide explicit examples of surfaces to which the result applies.