Existence of solutions to a general geometric elliptic variational problem

DOI10.1007/S00526-018-1348-4MaRDI QIDQ1650903zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Yangqin Fang, Sławomir Kolasiński

Publication date 16 July 2018

Published in Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.06576

zbMATH Keywords

rectifiable setelliptic integrand\(m\)-varifoldgood class

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational problems in a geometric measure-theoretic setting (49Q20) Length, area, volume, other geometric measure theory (28A75) Geometric measure and integration theory, integral and normal currents in optimization (49Q15) Projective differential geometry (53A20)

Abstract: We consider the problem of minimising an inhomogeneous anisotropic elliptic functional in a class of closed $m$ dimensional subsets of $mathbf{R}^n$ which is stable under taking smooth deformations homotopic to the identity and under local Hausdorff limits. We prove that the minimiser exists inside the class and is an $(mathscr{H}^m,m)$~rectifiable set in the sense of Federer. The class of competitors encodes a notion of spanning a boundary. We admit unrectifiable and non-compact competitors and boundaries, and we make no restrictions on the dimension $m$ and the co-dimension $n-m$ other than $1lem<n$. An important tool for the proof is a novel smooth deformation theorem. The skeleton of the proof and the main ideas follow Almgren's 1968 paper. In the end we show that classes of sets spanning some closed set $B$ in homological and cohomological sense satisfy our axioms.

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