On lower semicontinuity of a defect energy obtained by a singular limit of the Ginzburg–Landau type energy for gradient fields

DOI10.1017/S0308210500027438zbMath0923.49008MaRDI QIDQ4243026

Yoshikazu Giga, Patricio Aviles

Publication date: 12 October 1999

Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Section A Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

semicontinuity; Hausdorff measure; jump discontinuity; Ginzburg-Landau energy; defect energy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

49K20: Optimality conditions for problems involving partial differential equations

49J45: Methods involving semicontinuity and convergence; relaxation

81T13: Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory

58E15: Variational problems concerning extremal problems in several variables; Yang-Mills functionals

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