A note on n-axially symmetric harmonic maps from B^3 to S^2 minimizing the relaxed energy

DOI10.1016/J.JFA.2011.07.022MaRDI QIDQ647606zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Luca Martinazzi

Publication date 24 November 2011

Published in Journal of Functional Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1011.5440

zbMATH Keywords

axially symmetric Dirichlet energy harmonic map relaxed energy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Harmonic maps, etc. (58E20)

Abstract: For any n>1 we give an explicit example of an n-axially symmetric Cartesian current in B^3 x S^2 with non-trivial vertical part and non-constant graph part minimizing the relaxed Dirichlet energy among the n-axially symmetric Cartesian currents with the same boundary. This stands in sharp contrast with a results of Hardt, Lin and Poon for the case n=1.

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The author gives explicit examples of harmonic maps \(B^3\to S^2\) minimizing the relaxed Dirichlet energy (in the sense of [\textit{F. Bethuel, H. Brézis} and \textit{J.-M. Coron}, Prog. Nonlinear Differ. Equ. Appl. 4, 37--52 (1990; Zbl 0793.58011)]). They are \(n\)-axially-symmetric (\(n\geq 2\)), i.e., \(S^1\)-equivariant with respect to \(S^1\) acting as usual on \(B^3\), but by \(n\)-fold angles on \(S^2\). The boundary data are nonconstant, and the singular part of the relaxed energy does not vanish. The examples can also be rephrased in the setting of Cartesian currents following [\textit{M. Giaquinta, G. Modica} and \textit{J. Souček}, Cartesian currents in the calculus of variations I. Cartesian currents. Berlin: Springer (1998; Zbl 0914.49001)]. The paper also contains an interesting discussion of the consequences the examples have for the prospects of regularity theory for relaxed energy minimizers. In some sense, the examples do not behave as could have been expected from the rather different \(n=1\) axially symmetric case, adding further obstacles to proving regularity.

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