Non-metricity in the continuum limit of randomly-distributed point defects

DOI10.1007/S11856-017-1620-XzbMATH Open1462.74019arXiv1508.02003OpenAlexW3101920681MaRDI QIDQ1709730FDOQ1709730

Authors: Raz Kupferman, Cy Maor, Ron Rosenthal 

Publication date: 6 April 2018

Published in: Israel Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We present a homogenization theorem for isotropically-distributed point defects, by considering a sequence of manifolds with increasingly dense point defects. The loci of the defects are chosen randomly according to a weighted Poisson point process, making it a continuous version of the first passage percolation model. We show that the sequence of manifolds converges to a smooth Riemannian manifold, while the Levi-Civita connections converge to a non-metric connection on the limit manifold. Thus, we obtain rigorously the emergence of a non-metricity tensor, which was postulated in the literature to represent continuous distribution of point defects.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.02003

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zbMATH Keywords

Levi-Civita connectionconvegencehomogenization theoremmanifold sequence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Molecular, statistical, and kinetic theories in solid mechanics (74A25) Homogenization in equilibrium problems of solid mechanics (74Q05) Random materials and composite materials (74A40) Stochastic and other probabilistic methods applied to problems in solid mechanics (74S60)

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