摘要

A ternary inhibitory system motivated by the triblock copolymer theory is studied as a nonlocal geometric variational problem. The free energy of the system is the sum of two terms: the total size of the interfaces separating the three constituents, and a longer ranging interaction energy that inhibits micro-domains from unlimited growth. In a particular parameter range there is an assembly of many core-shells that exists as a stationary set of the free energy functional. The cores form regions occupied by the first constituent of the ternary system, the shells form regions occupied by the second constituent and the background is taken by the third constituent. The constructive proof of the existence theorem reveals much information about the core-shell stationary assembly: asymptotically one can determine the sizes and locations of all the core-shells in the assembly. The proof also implies a kind of stability for the stationary assembly.

  • 出版日期2017-2