Regularity theory for tangent-point energies: the non-degenerate sub-critical case

DOI10.1515/ACV-2013-0020MaRDI QIDQ2018361zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Simon Blatt, Philipp Reiter

Publication date 14 April 2015

Published in Advances in the Calculus of Variations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1208.3605

zbMATH Keywords

minimizersregularity theoryknot energiestangent-point energies

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational problems in a geometric measure-theoretic setting (49Q20) Regularity of solutions in optimal control (49N60) Existence theories for free problems in two or more independent variables (49J10)

Abstract: In this article we introduce and investigate a new two-parameter family of knot energies $T{P}^{(p,q)}$ that contains the tangent-point energies. These energies are obtained by decoupling the exponents in the numerator and denominator of the integrand in the original definition of the tangent-point energies. We will first characterize the curves of finite energy in the sub-critical range $pin(q+2,2q+1)$ and see that those are all injective and regular curves in the Sobolev-Slobodeckiu{i} space $W^{(p-1)/q,q}$. We derive a formula for the first variation that turns out to be a non-degenerate elliptic operator for the special case $q=2$ --- a fact that seems not to be the case for the original tangent-point energies. This observation allows us to prove that stationary points of $T{P}^{(p,2)}$ + lambda length, $pin(4,5)$, lambda > 0, are smooth --- so especially all local minimizers are smooth.

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