A new approximation of relaxed energies for harmonic maps and the Faddeev model

DOI10.1007/S00526-010-0353-ZMaRDI QIDQ532553zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mariano Giaquinta, Min-Chun Hong, Hao Yin

Publication date 5 May 2011

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0911.4224

zbMATH Keywords

approximationharmonic mapsminimizerDirichlet energyrelaxed energyFaddeev model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational problems in a geometric measure-theoretic setting (49Q20) Harmonic maps, etc. (58E20) Methods involving semicontinuity and convergence; relaxation (49J45) Applications of variational problems in infinite-dimensional spaces to the sciences (58E50)

Abstract: We propose a new approximation for the relaxed energy $E$ of the Dirichlet energy and prove that the minimizers of the approximating functionals converge to a minimizer $u$ of the relaxed energy, and that $u$ is partially regular without using the concept of Cartesian currents. We also use the same approximation method to study the variational problem of the relaxed energy for the Faddeev model and prove the existence of minimizers for the relaxed energy $ilde{E}_F$ in the class of maps with Hopf degree $pm1$.

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