The evolving surface Cahn-Hilliard equation with a degenerate mobility

Abstract

We consider the existence of suitable weak solutions to the Cahn-Hilliard equation with a non-constant (degenerate) mobility on a class of evolving surfaces. We also show weak-strong uniqueness for the case of a positive mobility function, and under some further assumptions on the initial data we show uniqueness for a class of strong solutions for a degenerate mobility function.

35 pages, further corrections including revised appendix