A necessary condition for lower semicontinuity of line energies

DOI10.1007/S00526-016-1093-5zbMATH Open1439.49020arXiv1503.01021OpenAlexW2964048043MaRDI QIDQ522261FDOQ522261

Authors: Pierre Bochard, Antonin Monteil 

Publication date: 13 April 2017

Published in: Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We are interested in some energy functionals concentrated on the discontinuity lines of divergence-free 2D vector fields valued in the circle $mathbb{S}^1$. This kind of energy has been introduced first by P. Aviles and Y. Giga. They show in particular that, with the cubic cost function $f(t)=t^3$, this energy is lower semicontinuous. In this paper, we construct a counter-example which excludes the lower semicontinuity of line energies for cost functions of the form $t^p$ with $0<p<1$. We also show that, in this case, the viscosity solution corresponding to a certain convex domain is not a minimizer.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.01021

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zbMATH Keywords

lower semicontinuityviscosity solutionenergy functionalsliquid crystal configurations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methods involving semicontinuity and convergence; relaxation (49J45) Viscosity solutions to Hamilton-Jacobi equations in optimal control and differential games (49L25) Variational principles of physics (49S05) Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30)

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