Double phase flow under Lavrentiev phenomenon
Abstract
This paper deals with parabolic equations associated with double phase functionals. It is known that double phase functionals may exhibit the Lavrentiev phenomenon, which indicates an existence of a singular minimizer. Our aim is to investigate the process of the associated double phase flow evolving toward the singular minimizer. For this purpose, we study whether solutions can be approximated by smooth functions. We first observe a phenomenon that we call finite-time loss of smooth approximability; more precisely, we prove that the flow eventually ceases to be smoothly approximable. We also establish quantitative estimates on the time of loss. On the other hand, we investigate a phenomenon that we call short-time persistence of smooth approximability; we prove that the smooth approximability persists for a short time provided that the initial datum is regular and that the functional is nondegenerate with respect to the gradient variable. The results concerning finite-time loss of smooth approximability are derived from the evolution variational inequality, whereas the short-time persistence result is obtained by applying analytic semigroup theory. The novelty of this paper lies in studying the dynamical aspect of the Lavrentiev phenomenon, which is usually regarded as a stationary phenomenon.
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BibTeX
@misc{kaiho2026double,
title = {{Double phase flow under Lavrentiev phenomenon}},
author = {Yoshiki Kaiho},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2607.25296},
eprint = {2607.25296},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.25296},
note = {CC BY-NC-ND 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Double phase flow under Lavrentiev phenomenon
AU - Yoshiki Kaiho
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/04
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2607.25296
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.25296
AB - This paper deals with parabolic equations associated with double phase functionals. It is known that double phase functionals may exhibit the Lavrentiev phenomenon, which indicates an existence of a singular minimizer. Our aim is to investigate the process of the associated double phase flow evolving toward the singular minimizer. For this purpose, we study whether solutions can be approximated by smooth functions. We first observe a phenomenon that we call finite-time loss of smooth approximability; more precisely, we prove that the flow eventually ceases to be smoothly approximable. We also establish quantitative estimates on the time of loss. On the other hand, we investigate a phenomenon that we call short-time persistence of smooth approximability; we prove that the smooth approximability persists for a short time provided that the initial datum is regular and that the functional is nondegenerate with respect to the gradient variable. The results concerning finite-time loss of smooth approximability are derived from the evolution variational inequality, whereas the short-time persistence result is obtained by applying analytic semigroup theory. The novelty of this paper lies in studying the dynamical aspect of the Lavrentiev phenomenon, which is usually regarded as a stationary phenomenon.
ER -