Interior partial regularity for minimal L^p-vector fields with integer fluxes

DOI10.2422/2036-2145.201207_003MaRDI QIDQ2792156zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mircea Petrache

Publication date 8 March 2016

Published in Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. Classe di Scienze. Serie V (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1204.0209

zbMATH Keywords

integer fluxpartial regularityweak bundleweak connection

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Weak solutions to PDEs (35D30) Variational methods for second-order elliptic equations (35J20) Regularity of solutions in optimal control (49N60) Geometric measure and integration theory, integral and normal currents in optimization (49Q15) Variational problems in a geometric measure-theoretic setting (49Q20) Integral geometry (53C65) Variational problems concerning extremal problems in several variables; Yang-Mills functionals (58E15)

Abstract: We use a new combinatorial technique to prove the optimal interior partial regularity result for Lp-vectorfields with integer fluxes minimizing the Lp-energy. More precisely, we prove that the minimal vectorfields are H"older outside a set which is locally finite inside the domain. The results continue the program started in collaboration with Tristan Rivi`ere, but this paper is self-contained.

Review text

Interesting questions arise from the problem of defining ``weak bundles with connections preferably in Sobolev classes. The minimization problem discussed here is inspired from the discussion of singular \(U(1)\)-bundles in [the author and \textit{T. Rivière}, Geom. Funct. Anal. 21, No. 6, 1419--1442 (2011; Zbl 1242.58009)].NEWLINENEWLINEAn accessible formulation of the problem is as follows. A vector field \(X\in L^p (B^3,\mathbb R^3)\) is called a vector field with integer fluxes if for every ball \(B_r(a)\) strictly inside \(B\), the number \(\int_{\partial B_r(a)}X\cdot\nu\) is an integer. For \(p\geq 3/2\), this is just the class of divergence-free vector fields, but here the focus is on \(1<p<3/2\). It is proven that minimizers of \(\int_B|X|^p\) among vector fields with given boundary data for \(X\cdot\nu\) and with integer fluxes are locally Hölder continuous away from a locally finite subset of \(B\).NEWLINENEWLINESome parts of the proof resemble those from harmonic map theory, using monotonicity, stationarity, and a variant of the Luckhaus Lemma for sequential compactness of minimizers. The proof of \(\varepsilon\)-regularity, however, brings in new ideas. It uses the fact that the integer fluxes condition helps identify singular points in \(L^p\)-vector fields which come with natural integer ``charges. Approximation of vector fields by more simple ones is then possible, and the charged points are vertices of some directed graph. This allows to use combinatoric methods as well as those from geometric measure theory.

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