A variational method for generating n-cross fields using higher-order Q-tensors

DOI10.1137/19M1287857zbMATH Open1479.35835arXiv1909.00922OpenAlexW3198915868WikidataQ114074231 ScholiaQ114074231MaRDI QIDQ3382804FDOQ3382804

Authors: José Alberto Montero, Dmitry Golovaty, Daniel Spirn 

Publication date: 22 September 2021

Published in: SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: An $n$-cross field is a locally-defined orthogonal coordinate system invariant with respect to the cubic symmetry group. Cross fields are finding wide-spread use in mesh generation, computer graphics, and materials science among many applications. It was recently by other authors that $3$-cross fields can be embedded into the set of symmetric $4$th-order tensors. Another concurrent work further develops a relaxation of this tensor field via a certain set of varieties. In this paper, we consider the problem of generating an arbitrary $n$-cross field using a fourth-order $Q$-tensor theory that is constructed out of tensored projection matrices. We establish that by a Ginzburg-Landau relaxation towards a global projection, one can reliably generate an $n$-cross field on arbitrary Lipschitz domains. Our work provides a rigorous approach that offers several new results including porting the tensor framework to arbitrary dimensions, providing a new relaxation method that embeds the problem into a global steepest descent, and offering a relaxation scheme for aligning the cross field with the boundary. Our approach is designed to fit within the classical Ginzburg-Landau PDE theory, offering a concrete road map for the future careful study of singularities of energy minimizers.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.00922

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zbMATH Keywords

Ginzburg-Landauhexahedral meshframe fieldcross field

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Multilinear algebra, tensor calculus (15A69) Ginzburg-Landau equations (35Q56) Mesh generation, refinement, and adaptive methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N50) Vector fields, frame fields in differential topology (57R25)

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Uses Software

• COMSOL
• CubeCover

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