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We demonstrate that Radon measures which arise as the limit of the Modica-Mortola measures associated with phase-fields with uniformly bounded diffuse area and Willmore energy may be singular at the boundary of a domain and discuss implications for practical applications. We furthermore give partial regularity results for the phase-fields uε at the boundary in terms of boundary conditions and counterexamples without boundary conditions.

For a model of a driven interface in an elastic medium with random obstacles we prove the existence of a stationary positive supersolution at non-vanishing driving force. This shows the emergence of a rate-independent hysteresis through the interaction of the interface with the obstacles despite a linear (force = velocity) microscopic kinetic relation. We also prove a percolation result, namely, the possibility to embed the graph of an only logarithmically growing function in a next-nearest neighbour site percolation cluster at a non-trivial percolation threshold.

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On the boundary regularity of phase-fields for Willmore's energy

Pinning of interfaces in a random elastic medium and logarithmic lattice embeddings in percolation

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On the boundary regularity of phase-fields for Willmore's energy

Pinning of interfaces in a random elastic medium and logarithmic lattice embeddings in percolation