On the two-state problem for general differential operators

DOI10.1016/J.NA.2018.03.015MaRDI QIDQ1627419zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Guido De Philippis, Luca Palmieri, Filip Rindler

Publication date 22 November 2018

Published in Nonlinear Analysis. Theory, Methods \& Applications. Series A: Theory and Methods (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.09302, http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/100720/7/WRAP-on-state-problem-general-differential-operators-Rindler-2018.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

approximate solutions compensated compactness differential inclusions gradient rigidity two-state problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs with multivalued right-hand sides (35R70) General theory of partial differential operators (47F05)

Abstract: In this note we generalize the Ball-James rigidity theorem for gradient differential inclusions to the setting of a general linear differential constraint. In particular, we prove the rigidity for approximate solutions to the two-state inclusion with incompatible states for merely

m a t h r m L^{1}

-bounded sequences. In this way, our theorem can be seen as a result of compensated compactness in the linear-growth setting.

Review text

In [Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal. 100, No. 1, 13--52 (1987; Zbl 0629.49020)], \textit{J. M. Ball} and \textit{R. D. James} proved the following: Theorem. Let \(\Omega \subseteq \mathbb{R}^{d}\) be an open, bounded and connected set and let \(A,B\) be \(m\times d\) matrices with rank \((A-B)\geq 2\). Then, {\parindent=8mm\begin{itemize}\item[(i)] If \(u\in W^{1,\infty }(\Omega ;\mathbb{R}^{m})\) satisfies the differential inclusion \[ Du(x)\in \left\{ A,B\right\} \text{ for almost all }x\in \Omega,\tag{1} \] then either \(Du\equiv A\) or \(Du\equiv B\). \item[(ii)] Let \(\left\{ u_{j}\right\} _{j=1}^{\infty }\) \(\subseteq W^{1,\infty }(\Omega ;\mathbb{R}^{m})\) be a uniformly norm-bounded sequence such that \[ \text{dist}(Du_{j},\left\{ A,B\right\})\rightarrow 0\text{ in measure.} \] Then, there is a subsequence such that either \[ \int_{\Omega }\left| Du_{j}(x)-A\right| dx\rightarrow 0\text{ or }\int_{\Omega }\left| Du_{j}(x)-B\right| dx\rightarrow 0, \] where \(D\) denotes the gradient. \end{itemize}} Property (i) is known as rigidity for exact solutions of (1), while (ii) is known as rigidity for approximate solutions of (1). The goal of this paper is to extend this result (and some related results) to more general operators \(\mathcal{A}\) where \[ \mathcal{A}v\equiv \sum_{\left| \alpha \right| =k}A_{\alpha }\partial ^{\alpha }v \] where the sum is over all multi-indices \(\alpha \in (\mathbb{N}\cup \left\{ 0\right\})^{d}\) and \(A_{\alpha}\in \mathbb{R}^{n}\otimes \mathbb{R}^{l}\). The authors note three reasons for this generalization: 1) it extends known results to general operators of any order, 2) the result allows the case of maps that are only bounded in \(L^{1}\) and 3) the authors believe that this proof is more natural than ones currently in the literature. The proof makes use of ideas from [\textit{G. De Philippis} and \textit{F. Rindler}, Ann. Math. (2) 184, No. 3, 1017--1039 (2016; Zbl 1352.49050)]. The authors note that the proof can be modified to work for non-homogeneous operators and non-zero (but asymptotically vanishing) right-hand sides.

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