The Time-Periodic Cahn-Hilliard-Gurtin System on the Half Space as a Mixed-Order System with General Boundary Conditions

Abstract: A well-posedness and maximal regularity result for the time-periodic Cahn-Hilliard-Gurtin system in the half space is proved. For this purpose, we introduce a novel class of complementing boundary conditions, extending the classical Lopatinskiĭ-Shapiro conditions from elliptic and parabolic theory to time-periodic mixed-order systems with general boundary conditions. Moreover, we show that the classical Lopatinskiĭ-Shapiro conditions are in general insufficient for well-posedness of mixed-order systems.