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

DOI10.1137/19M1287857MaRDI QIDQ3382804zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

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)

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

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)

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.

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