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View SchemaOn a stochastic phase-field model of cell motility with singular diffusion
| Authors | Amjad Saef, Wilhelm Stannat |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | 2601.05881vv1 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.05881 |
| License | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
Abstract
We study existence of solutions in the variational sense for a class of stochastic phase-field models describing moving boundary problems. The models consist of stochastic reaction-diffusion equations with singular diffusion forced by a phase-field. We investigate both the case of an independently evolving phase-field and of coupled phase-field evolution driven by a viscous Hamilton-Jacobi equation. Such systems are used in the modelling of single-cell chemotaxis, where the contour of the cell shape corresponds to a level set of the phase-field. The technical challenge lies in the singularities at zero level sets of the phase-field. For large classes of initial data, we establish global existence of probabilistically weak solutions in $L^2$-spaces with weights which compensate for the singularities.
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