Elliptic systems and material interpenetration

DOI10.7169/FACM/1238418801MaRDI QIDQ1032736zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Giovanni Alessandrini, V. Nesi

Publication date 26 October 2009

Published in Functiones et Approximatio. Commentarii Mathematici (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0806.0066

zbMATH Keywords

harmonic mappingLamé systemLewy theoremRadó-Kneser-Choquet theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Harmonic, subharmonic, superharmonic functions in two dimensions (31A05) Boundary value problems for second-order elliptic equations (35J25) Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10) Harmonic maps, etc. (58E20)

Abstract: We classify the second order, linear, two by two systems for which the two fundamental theorems for planar harmonic mappings, the Rado'-Kneser-Choquet Theorem and the H. Lewy Theorem, hold. They are those which, up to a linear change of variable, can be written in diagonal form with the same operator on both diagonal blocks. In particular, we prove that the aforementioned Theorems cannot be extended to solutions of either the Lame' system of elasticity, or of elliptic systems in diagonal form, even with just slightly different operators for the two components.

Review text

The authors deal with generalizations of two classical results from the theory of planar harmonic mappings, the Radó-Kneser-Choquet theorem and the Lewy theorem, see [ \textit{P. Duren,} Harmonic mappings in the plane. Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics 156. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2004; Zbl 1055.31001)], for mappings whose components satisfy a linear elliptic equation. These results are motivated, besides the theoretical background of planar harmonic mappings, also by requirements imposed by certain applications in physics, e.g., no interpenetration of matter is permitted. In the main results, a characterization of the second order linear two by two systems for which these two theorems hold is given. They are the systems which can be written in diagonal form with the same operator on both diagonal blocks. Moreover, the authors show by an example that the Lamé system of isotropic, linearized elasticity in the plane, with constant Lamé coefficients, may lead to physically unacceptable solutions, because interpenetration of matter occurs.

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