Dynamical stability for the periodic modified Mullins-Sekerka flow

Abstract

We prove dynamical stability in arbitrary dimension for the modified Mullins--Sekerka flow, the gradient flow of the sharp-interface Ohta--Kawasaki energy on the flat torus. Specifically, we show that if an initial set has the same volume as a strictly stable critical set for the energy and is sufficiently close to it in $C^{3,\alpha }$, then the flow exists for all times and converges exponentially fast, in every $C^k$ norm, to a translate of that critical set. The proof relies on a quantitative Alexandrov-type estimate for strictly stable critical sets of the energy.