# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

April  2012, 32(4): 1255-1286. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2012.32.1255

## Slow motion of particle systems as a limit of a reaction-diffusion equation with half-Laplacian in dimension one

 1 Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, ETSEIB - Departament de MA1, Av. Diagonal, 647, 08028 Barcelona, Spain 2 Université Paris-Est, Cermics, Ecole des Ponts ParisTech, 6 et 8 avenue Blaise Pascal, Cité Descartes, Champs-sur-Marne, 77455 Marne-la-Vallée Cedex 2, France

Received  July 2010 Revised  August 2011 Published  October 2011

We consider a reaction-diffusion equation with a half-Laplacian. In the case where the solution is independent on time, the model reduces to the Peierls-Nabarro model describing dislocations as transition layers in a phase field setting. We introduce a suitable rescaling of the evolution equation, using a small parameter $\varepsilon$. As $\varepsilon$ goes to zero, we show that the limit dynamics is characterized by a system of ODEs describing the motion of particles with two-body interactions. The interaction forces are in $1/x$ and correspond to the well-known interaction between dislocations.
Citation: María del Mar González, Regis Monneau. Slow motion of particle systems as a limit of a reaction-diffusion equation with half-Laplacian in dimension one. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - A, 2012, 32 (4) : 1255-1286. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2012.32.1255
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Monneau, Dislocation dynamics: From microscopic models to macroscopic crystal plasticity,, Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics, 21 (2009), 109. doi: 10.1007/s00161-009-0103-7. Google Scholar [17] S.-I. Ei, The motion of weakly interacting pulses in reaction-diffusion systems,, J. Dynamics Differential Equ., 14 (2002), 85. doi: 10.1023/A:1012980128575. Google Scholar [18] L. C. Evans, "Partial Differential Equations," Graduate Studies in Mathematics, 19,, American Mathematical Society, (1998). Google Scholar [19] E. B. Fabes, C. E. Kenig and R. P. Serapioni, The local regularity of solutions of degenerate elliptic equations,, Comm. Partial Differential Equations, 7 (1982), 77. Google Scholar [20] A. Fino, H. Ibrahim and R. Monneau, The Peierls-Nabarro model as a limit of a Frenkel-Kontorova model,, preprint, (). Google Scholar [21] N. Forcadel, C. Imbert and R. Monneau, Homogenization of some particle systems with two-body interactions and of the dislocation dynamics,, Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst., 23 (2009), 785. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2009.23.785. Google Scholar [22] G. Fusco and J. K. Hale, Slow-motion manifolds, dormant instability, and singular perturbations,, J. Dynam. Differential Equations, 1 (1989), 75. doi: 10.1007/BF01048791. Google Scholar [23] A. Garroni and S. Müller, $\Gamma$-limit of a phase-field model of dislocations,, SIAM J. Math. Anal., 36 (2005), 1943. Google Scholar [24] D. Gilbarg and N. S. Trudinger, "Elliptic Partial Differential Equations of Second Order," Second edition, Grundlehren der Mathematischen Wissenschaften [Fundamental Principles of Mathematical Sciences], 224,, Springer-Verlag, (1983). Google Scholar [25] M.d.M. González, Gamma convergence of an energy functional related to the fractional Laplacian,, Calc. Var. Partial Differential Equations, 36 (2009), 173. Google Scholar [26] C. P. Grant, Slow motion in one-dimensional Cahn-Morral systems,, SIAM J. Math. Anal., 26 (1995), 21. Google Scholar [27] J. R. Hirth and L. Lothe, "Theory of Dislocations,", Second edition, (1992). Google Scholar [28] C. Imbert and P. E. Souganidis, Phasefield theory for fractional diffusion-reaction equations and applications,, preprint, (). Google Scholar [29] W. D. Kalies, R. C. A. M. Van der Vorst and T. Wanner, Slow motion in higher-order systems and $\Gamma$-convergence in one space dimension,, Nonlinear Anal., 44 (2001), 33. doi: 10.1016/S0362-546X(99)00245-X. Google Scholar [30] M. Kurzke, The gradient flow motion of boundary vortices,, Ann. Inst. H. Poincaré Anal. Non Linéaire, 24 (2007), 91. Google Scholar [31] P. Lévy, Sur les intégrales dont les éléments sont des variables aléatoires indépendantes,, Ann. Scuola Norm. Sup. Pisa Cl. Sci. (2), 3 (1934), 337. Google Scholar [32] E. H. Lieb and M. 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