Periodic striped configurations in the large volume limit

Abstract

We show striped pattern formation in the large volume limit for a class of generalized antiferromagnetic local/nonlocal interaction functionals in general dimension previously considered Goldman-Runa and Daneri-Runa and in Giuliani-Lieb-Lebowitz and Giuliani-Seiringer in the discrete setting. In such a model the relative strength between the short range attractive term favouring pure phases and the long range repulsive term favouring oscillations is modulated by a parameter $\tau$. For $\tau<0$ minimizers are trivial uniform states. It is conjectured that $\forall\,d\geq2$ there exists $0<\bar{\tau}\ll1$ such that for all $0<\tau\leq\bar{\tau}$ and for all $L>0$ minimizers are striped/lamellar patterns. In Daneri-Runa arXiv:1702.07334 the authors prove the above for $L=2kh^*_\tau$, where $k\in\N$ and $h^*_\tau$ is the optimal period of stripes for a given $0<\tau\leq\bar{\tau}$. The purpose of this paper is to show the validity of the conjecture for generic $L$.