We are interested in the study of local and
global minimizers for an ener
gy functional of the type
where
W is a smooth, even double-well potential and
K is a non-ne
gative symmetric kernel in a
general class, which contains as a particular case the choice
g" data-mathURL="/science?_ob=MathURL&_method=retrieve&_eid=1-s2.0-S0022039616000073&_mathId=si2.gif&_user=111111111&_pii=S0022039616000073&_rdoc=1&_issn=00220396&md5=be76e82ae3b4224d12900a0c435d16e4" title="Click to view the MathML source">K(z)=|z|−N−2s, with
g" data-mathURL="/science?_ob=MathURL&_method=retrieve&_eid=1-s2.0-S0022039616000073&_mathId=si3.gif&_user=111111111&_pii=S0022039616000073&_rdoc=1&_issn=00220396&md5=74e44ff2c4f8566548ac81332372a798" title="Click to view the MathML source">s∈(0,1), related to the fractional Laplacian. We show the existence and uniqueness (up to translations) of one-dimensional minimizers in the full space
g" data-mathURL="/science?_ob=MathURL&_method=retrieve&_eid=1-s2.0-S0022039616000073&_mathId=si323.gif&_user=111111111&_pii=S0022039616000073&_rdoc=1&_issn=00220396&md5=c29044b43cfd662eddb874188489c5f3" title="Click to view the MathML source">RN and obtain sharp estimates for some quantities associated to it. In particular, we deduce the existence of solutions of the non-local Allen–Cahn equation
which possess one-dimensional symmetry.
The results presented here were proved in , and for the model case g" data-mathURL="/science?_ob=MathURL&_method=retrieve&_eid=1-s2.0-S0022039616000073&_mathId=si2.gif&_user=111111111&_pii=S0022039616000073&_rdoc=1&_issn=00220396&md5=be76e82ae3b4224d12900a0c435d16e4" title="Click to view the MathML source">K(z)=|z|−N−2s. In our work, we consider instead general kernels which may be possibly non-homogeneous and truncated at infinity.