Cartesian currents in the calculus of variations II. Variational integrals
BV-functionsCartesian currentsCartesian mapsDirichlet integralgeometric measure theoryharmonic mapsinteger multiplicity rectifiable currentsliquid crystalsmaps between manifoldsnon-scalar variational problemsnonlinear elasticityparametric and non-parametric surfaces of least arearegular variational integralsregularityrelaxationweak diffeomorphisms
Absolutely continuous real functions of several variables, functions of bounded variation (26B30) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to calculus of variations and optimal control (49-02) Geometric measure and integration theory, integral and normal currents in optimization (49Q15) Variational problems in a geometric measure-theoretic setting (49Q20) Harmonic maps, etc. (58E20) Nonlinear elasticity (74B20) Liquid crystals (76A15)
The second volume of the monograph ``Cartesian currents in the calculus of variations is mainly devoted to the study of specific non-scalar variational problems with the help of the tools which have been developed in volume I (see the review above). The book is divided into six chapters, and these chapters are readable independently of each other. The first chapter discusses the general setting, i.e., the notion of regular variational integrals in the class of Cartesian currents. In Chapter 2 the authors introduce the basic concepts of nonlinear elasticity, for example, they explain in great detail different forms of stored energies and discuss constitutive conditions. After these preparations the weak diffeomorphisms are shown to serve as the correct mathematical model for elastic deformations. At the end of Chapter 2 it is shown that various boundary value problems from nonlinear elasticity are solvable within subclasses of weak diffeomorphisms. Chapter 3 is devoted to the Dirichlet integral in Sobolev spaces, which means that, roughly speaking, the authors collect ``all known existence and regularity results for weakly harmonic maps between Riemannian manifolds. For example, the reader will find the partial regularity result of Schoen-Uhlenbeck for enery minimizing harmonic maps as well as results on energy minimizing maps with prescribed action or loops. As the authors write in the introduction of Chapter 4 they here begin to develop a natural approach to variational problems for the Dirichlet energy in terms of Cartesian currents. To be specific, the Dirichlet energy for maps into \(S^2\) is studied under the assumption that the domain of definition is a region in \(\mathbb{R}^2\) or \(\mathbb{R}^3\). In this setting the Dirichlet integral is first extended to Cartesian currents, then the existence of minimizing currents is established and finally partial regularity of minimizers is shown. Chapter 5 generalizes some of the methods and results of the previous chapter to more general situations, for example, the liquid crystal energy is studied first in the classical way via the Sobolev space approach, then the relaxed version is minimized on a suitable set of Cartesian currents. The final Chapter 6 adresses the non-parametric area functional: starting from the classical theory of codimension one surfaces of least area (in various settings), the authors then discuss \(n\)-dimensional graphs in \(\mathbb{R}^n\times \mathbb{R}^N\) in the framework of Cartesian currents. As in the first volume each chapter of volume II is followed by a collection of remarks adressing related problems and further results and also giving historical comments. Although the subject is very deep, the interested reader can easily follow the clear lines of exposition, and a large number of examples helps to illustrate the theory. A detailed table of contents, an extensive index and a list of 686 references also support the reader in consulting this monograph. In summary: ``Cartesian currents in the calculus of variations II. Variational integrals can be highly recommended to anybody including graduate students and active researchers who is interested in this new and active field of variational calculus.
- Hyperelastic deformations of smallest total energy
- On the existence of minimizers for the neo-Hookean energy in the axisymmetric setting
- Partial regularity for manifold constrained \(p(x)\)-harmonic maps
- The strong \(L^p\)-closure of vector fields with finitely many integer singularities on \(B^3\)
- Embedding surfaces inside small domains with minimal distortion
- A note on Alberti's Luzin-type theorem for gradients
- Geometric measure theory and differential inclusions
- The \(N\)-clock model: variational analysis for fast and slow divergence rates of \(N\)
- Optimal gradient estimates for multi-phase integrals
- Minimal BV-liftings of \(W^{1, 1} (\Omega, \mathbb{S}^1)\) maps in 2D are ``often unique
- Splitting type variational problems with linear growth conditions
- Sharp exponential inequalities for the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck operator
- Lifting for manifold-valued maps of bounded variation
- The Plateau problem from the perspective of optimal transport
- The affine Orlicz Pólya-Szegő principle on \(BV(\Omega )\)
- Regularity of free boundaries in anisotropic capillarity problems and the validity of Young's law
- Polyconvex energies and cavitation
- On the minimizers of the relaxed energy functional of mappings from higher dimensional balls into \(S^{2}\)
- Steiner symmetric extremals in Pólya-Szegő-type inequalities
- Maps into manifolds and currents: area and \(W^{1,2}\)-, \(W^{1/2}\)-, \(BV\)-energies
- Relaxation and integral representation for functionals of linear growth on metric measure spaces
- On sequences of maps into a manifold with equibounded \(W^{1/2}\)-energies
- Mesh optimization for singular axisymmetric harmonic maps from the disc into the sphere
- A geometric look at momentum flux and stress in fluid mechanics
- Currents and curvature varifolds in continuum mechanics
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- Analytic and geometric properties of dislocation singularities
- Semicartesian surfaces and the relaxed area of maps from the plane to the plane with a line discontinuity
- Gradient Young measures generated by quasi-conformal maps in the plane
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- Two-dimensional unit-length vector fields of vanishing divergence
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- Global existence of solutions of the liquid crystal flow for the Oseen-Frank model in \(\mathbb R^2\)
- Relaxations for minimizing metric distortion and elastic energies for 3D shape matching
- Global existence of weak solution for the 2-D Ericksen-Leslie system
- The relaxed area of \(\mathbb{S}^1\)-valued singular maps in the strict \(BV\)-convergence
- Local invertibility in Sobolev spaces with applications to nematic elastomers and magnetoelasticity
- Newton and conjugate gradient for harmonic maps from the disc into the sphere
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- Lower semi-continuity for non-coercive polyconvex integrals in the limit case
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- Boundary regularity for manifold constrained p(x)‐harmonic maps
- A nonlinear Dirichlet problem involving terms with logarithmic growth
- The distributional divergence of horizontal vector fields vanishing at infinity on Carnot groups
- Non occurence of the Lavrentiev gap for multidimensional autonomous problems
- Harmonic dipoles and the relaxation of the neo-Hookean energy in 3D elasticity
- On the lack of compactness in the axisymmetric neo-Hookean model
- On the distributional Jacobian of maps from \(\mathbb{S}^N\) into \(\mathbb{S}^N\) in fractional Sobolev and Hölder spaces
- Partial regularity of a minimizer of the relaxed energy for biharmonic maps
- Equilibrium of thin shells under large strains without through-the-thickness shear and self-penetration of matter
- The relaxed energy of fractional Sobolev maps with values into the circle
- Relaxed area of 0-homogeneous maps in the strict \textit{BV}-convergence
- A non-parametric Plateau problem with partial free boundary
- Lower semicontinuity, Stoilow factorization and principal maps
- Upper bounds for the relaxed area of \(\mathbb{S}^1\)-valued Sobolev maps and its countably subadditive interior envelope
- A posteriori error control for nonconvex problems via calibration
- Singular minimizers in nonlinear elasticity
- Maps of bounded variation from PI spaces to metric spaces
- Sobolev mappings, degree, homotopy classes and rational homology spheres
- Tensor rectifiable G-flat chains
- Topological features in continuum mechanics: from simple to complex bodies
- Heterotopic energy for Sobolev mappings
- Relaxation of non-convex integral functionals in the multidimensional scalar case
- Weak and strong L^p-limits of vector fields with finitely many integer singularities in dimension n
- Pullback of closed forms by low regularity maps to manifolds, and applications
- A relaxation result for a second order energy of mappings into the sphere
- A class of forward-backward regularizations of the Perona-Malik equation with variable exponent
- On the relaxation of polyconvex functionals with linear growth under strict convergence in BV
- Modeling, mathematical and numerical analysis of electrorheological fluids.
- On a singular perturbation problem related to optimal lifting in BV-space
- Existence of generalized minimizers and dual solutions for a class of variational problems with linear growth related to image recovery
- Invertibility and weak continuity of the determinant for the modelling of cavitation and fracture in nonlinear elasticity
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