Optimal gradient estimates of solutions to the insulated conductivity problem in dimension greater than two

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Authors Hongjie Dong, Yan Yan Li, Zhuolun Yang

Publication date 21 October 2021

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with mechanics of deformable solids (35Q74) Composite and mixture properties (74E30) Composite media; random media in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A48) Second-order elliptic equations (35J15) Stress concentrations, singularities in solid mechanics (74G70)

Abstract: We study the insulated conductivity problem with inclusions embedded in a bounded domain in $mathbb{R}^n$. The gradient of solutions may blow up as $varepsilon$, the distance between inclusions, approaches to $0$. It was known that the optimal blow up rate in dimension $n=2$ is of order $varepsilo{n}^{-1/2}$. It has recently been proved that in dimensions $nge3$, an upper bound of the gradient is of order $$ for some $$. On the other hand, optimal values of $$ have not been identified. In this paper, we prove that when the inclusions are balls, the optimal value of $$ is $[-(n-1)+sqrt(n-1{)}^2+4(n-2)]/4in(0,1/2)$ in dimensions $nge3$.

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