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Uniform Lipschitz regularity of flat segregated interfaces in a singularly perturbed problem

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For the singularly perturbed system

$$\begin{aligned} \varDelta u_{i,\beta }=\beta u_{i,\beta }\sum _{j\ne i}u_{j,\beta }^2, \quad 1\le i\le N, \end{aligned}$$

we prove that flat segregated interfaces are uniformly Lipschitz as \(\beta \rightarrow +\infty \). As a byproduct of the proof we also obtain the optimal lower bound near flat interfaces,

$$\begin{aligned} \sum _iu_{i,\beta }\ge c\beta ^{-1/4}. \end{aligned}$$

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Correspondence to Kelei Wang.

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Communicated by F. H. Lin.

The author’s research was partially supported by “the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities” and NSFC No. 11301522. I would like to thank the refree for valuable suggestions.

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Wang, K. Uniform Lipschitz regularity of flat segregated interfaces in a singularly perturbed problem. Calc. Var. 56, 135 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00526-017-1235-4

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