Energy-minimizing torus-valued maps with prescribed singularities, Plateau's problem, and BV-lifting

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Authors: Giacomo Canevari, V. P. C. Le 

Abstract: In this paper, we investigate the relation between energy-minimizing torus-valued maps with prescribed singularities, the lifting problem for torus-valued maps in the space BV, and Plateau's problem for vectorial currents, in codimension one. First, we show that the infimum of the $W^{1,1}$-seminorm among all maps with values in the $k$-dimensional flat torus and prescribed topological singularities $S$ is equal to the minimum of the mass among all $extitnormal$ $mathbb{R}^k$-currents, of codimension one, bounded by $S$. Then, we show that the minimum of the $BV$-energy among all liftings of a given torus-valued $W^{1,1}$-map $extbfu$ can be expressed in terms of the minimum mass among all $extitintegral$ $mathbb{Z}^k$-currents, of codimension one, bounded by the singularities of $extbfu$. As a byproduct of our analysis, we provide a bound for the solution of the integral Plateau problem, in codimension one, in terms of Plateau's problem for normal currents.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational problems in a geometric measure-theoretic setting (49Q20) Harmonic maps, etc. (58E20) Optimization of shapes other than minimal surfaces (49Q10) Geometric measure and integration theory, integral and normal currents in optimization (49Q15)

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