A relaxation of the intrinsic biharmonic energy
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instance of: scholarly article
title: A relaxation of the intrinsic biharmonic energy
zbMATH Open document ID: 1263.58005
author: Peter Hornung
published in: Mathematische Zeitschrift
publication date: 2012-08-13T00:00:00Z
review text: Given a bounded domain \(\Omega\subset\mathbb R^3\) or \(\mathbb R^4\), and \(N\subset\mathbb R^n\) a compact Riemannian manifold, the author studies the biharmonic energy \[ T(u)= \int_\Omega |\tau(u)|^2,\quad u\in H^1(\Omega,N), \] where \(\tau(u)\in L^2(\Omega,\mathbb R^n)\) denotes the tensor field of \(u\). As shown earlier, a natural space for \(T\) is \[ K(\Omega, N)= \{u\in H^1(\Omega,N)\mid\tau(u)\in L^2(\Omega, \mathbb{R}^n),\,\text{div\,}S(u)+ \tau(u)\cdot\nabla u= 0\}, \] where \(S\) is the stress-energy. The purpose of this paper is to make a framework for the direct method of calculus of variations for \(T\); in particular, to construct minimizers and study the relation to the critical points of \(T\).
reviewed by: Gábor Tóth
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 58E20
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 58E05
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 53C42
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 31B30
zbMATH DE Number: 6065383
zbMATH Keywords: biharmonic maps
zbMATH Keywords: energy concentration
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
full work available at URL: s00209-011-0883-x
OpenAlex ID: W1985222105
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DOI: 10.1007/S00209-011-0883-X
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6065383