A resolution of the Poisson problem for elastic plates

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Abstract: The Poisson problem consists in finding an immersed surface SigmasubsetmathbbRm minimising Germain's elastic energy (known as Willmore energy in geometry) with prescribed boundary, boundary Gauss map and area which constitutes a non-linear model for the equilibrium state of thin, clamped elastic plates originating from the work of S. Germain and S.D. Poisson or the early XIX century. We present a solution to this problem consisting in the minimisation of the total curvature energy E(Sigma)=intSigma|operatornameI!ISigma|gSigma2,mathrmdvolSigma (operatornameI!ISigma is the second fundamental form of Sigma), which is variationally equivalent to the elastic energy, in the case of boundary data of class C1,1 and when the boundary curve is simple and closed. The minimum is realised by an immersed disk, possibly with a finite number of branch points in its interior, which is of class C1,alpha up to the boundary for some 0<alpha<1, and whose Gauss map extends to a map of class C0,alpha up to the boundary.



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