Stable defects of minimizers of constrained variational principles

DOI10.1016/S0294-1449(16)30340-7zbMath0657.49018MaRDI QIDQ1110804

Fang-Hua Lin, David Kinderlehrer, Robert M. Hardt

Publication date: 1988

Published in: Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré. Analyse Non Linéaire (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://www.numdam.org/item?id=AIHPC_1988__5_4_297_0

zbMATH Keywords

harmonic maps; constrained variational problems; liquid crystals; singular set; compactness theorems; energy density bound; interior energy bound

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

49Q20: Variational problems in a geometric measure-theoretic setting

35J50: Variational methods for elliptic systems

49J45: Methods involving semicontinuity and convergence; relaxation

82D30: Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses)

58E20: Harmonic maps, etc.

35J20: Variational methods for second-order elliptic equations

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