On the structure of -harmonic maps

DOI10.1080/03605302.2014.920351zbMATH Open1304.49038arXiv1204.5374OpenAlexW1445606277MaRDI QIDQ2931978FDOQ2931978

Nikos Katzourakis

Publication date: 28 November 2014

Published in: Communications in Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let $Hin{C}^2(mathbb{R}^{Nimesn})$, $Hgeq0$. The PDE system [ label{1} A_infty u , :=, Big(H_P otimes H_P + H [H_P]^�ot H_{PP} Big)(Du) : D^2 u, = , 0 ag{1} ] arises as the ``Euler-Lagrange PDE" of vectorial variational problems for the functional $E_{infty}(u,Omega)=|H(Du){|}_{L^{i}nfty(Omega)}$ defined on maps $u:Omegasubseteqmathbb{R}^{n}longrightarrowmathbb{R}^N$. eqref{1} first appeared in the author's recent work cite{K3}. The scalar case though has a long history initiated by Aronsson in cite{A1}. Herein we study the solutions of eqref{1} with emphasis on the case of $n=2leqN$ with $H$ the Euclidean norm on $mathbb{R}^{Nimesn}$, which we call the ``$infty$-Laplacian". By establishing a rigidity theorem for rank-one maps of independent interest, we analyse a phenomenon of separation of the solutions to phases with qualitatively different behaviour. As a corollary, we extend to $Ngeq2$ the Aronsson-Evans-Yu theorem regarding non-existence of zeros of $|Du|$ and prove a Maximum Principle. We further characterise all $H$ for which eqref{1} is elliptic and also study the initial value problem for the ODE system arising for $n=1$ but with $H(cdot,u,u^{\prime })$ depending on all the arguments.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1204.5374

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zbMATH Keywords

rigidity theory\(\infty\)-LaplacianAronsson equationcalculus of variations in \(L^\infty\)optimal Lipschitz extensions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Rigidity results (53C24) Existence theories in calculus of variations and optimal control (49J99)

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