A necessary condition for lower semicontinuity of line energies

DOI10.1007/S00526-016-1093-5MaRDI QIDQ522261zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Pierre Bochard, Antonin Monteil

Publication date 13 April 2017

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

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

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)

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.

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