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

Patricio Aviles, Yoshikazu Giga

Publication date: 12 October 1999

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

zbMATH Keywords

semicontinuityHausdorff measurejump discontinuityGinzburg-Landau energydefect energy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Optimality conditions for problems involving partial differential equations (49K20) Methods involving semicontinuity and convergence; relaxation (49J45) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Variational problems concerning extremal problems in several variables; Yang-Mills functionals (58E15)

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