Singular perturbation of manifold-valued maps with anisotropic energy

DOI10.2140/APDE.2022.15.1531zbMATH Open1501.35167arXiv1809.05170OpenAlexW2892315803MaRDI QIDQ2097285FDOQ2097285

Authors: Xavier Lamy, Andres Contreras 

Publication date: 11 November 2022

Published in: Analysis \& PDE (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We establish small energy H"{o}lder bounds for minimizers $u_{v}arepsilon$ of [E_varepsilon (u):=int_Omega W( abla u)+ frac{1}{varepsilon^2} int_Omega f(u),] where $W$ is a positive definite quadratic form and the potential $f$ constrains $u$ to be close to a given manifold $mathcalN$. This implies that, up to subsequence, $u_{v}arepsilon$ converges locally uniformly to an $mathcalN$-valued $W$-harmonic map, away from its singular set. We treat general energies, covering in particular the 3D Landau-de Gennes model for liquid crystals, with three distinct elastic constants. Similar results are known in the isotropic case $W(ablau)=vertablauver{t}^2$ and rely on three ingredients: a monotonicity formula for the scale-invariant energy on small balls, a uniform pointwise bound, and a Bochner equation for the energy density. In the level of generality we consider, all of these ingredients are absent. In particular, the lack of monotonicity formula is an important reason why optimal estimates on the singular set of $W$-harmonic maps constitute an open problem. Our novel argument relies on showing appropriate decay for the energy on small balls, separately at scales smaller and larger than $varepsilon$: the former is obtained from the regularity of solutions to elliptic systems while the latter is inherited from the regularity of $W$-harmonic maps. This also allows us to handle physically relevant boundary conditions for which, even in the isotropic case, uniform convergence up to the boundary was open.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.05170

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zbMATH Keywords

minimizerssingular perturbationliquid crystals

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational methods for elliptic systems (35J50) Second-order elliptic systems (35J47)

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