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Title: Differentiability of Effective Fronts in the Continuous Setting in Two Dimensions
Abstract

We study the effective front associated with first-order front propagations in two dimensions ($n=2$) in the periodic setting with continuous coefficients. Our main result says that that the boundary of the effective front is differentiable at every irrational point. Equivalently, the stable norm associated with a continuous ${\mathbb{Z}}^{2}$-periodic Riemannian metric is differentiable at irrational points. This conclusion was obtained decades ago for smooth metrics [ 4, 6]. To the best of our knowledge, our result provides the first nontrivial property of the effective fronts in the continuous setting, which is the standard assumption in the literature of partial differential equations (PDE). Combining with the sufficiency result in [ 15], our result leads to a realization type conclusion: for continuous coefficients, a polygon could be an effective front if and only if it is centrally symmetric with rational vertices and nonempty interior.

 
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Award ID(s):
1843320
PAR ID:
10539361
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Publisher / Repository:
Oxford Academic Group
Date Published:
Journal Name:
International Mathematics Research Notices
Volume:
2024
Issue:
7
ISSN:
1073-7928
Page Range / eLocation ID:
5548 to 5585
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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