Giuseppe Buttazzo, Juan Casado-Díaz, Faustino Maestre
In this paper we consider optimal control problems where the control variable is a potential and the state equation is an elliptic partial differential equation of Schrödinger type, governed by the Laplace operator. The cost functional involves the solution of the state equation and a penalization term for the control variable. While the existence of an optimal solution simply follows by the direct methods of the calculus of variations, the regularity of the optimal potential is a difficult question and under the general assumptions we consider, no better regularity than the BVmathrm{BV} one can be expected. This happens in particular for the cases in which a bang-bang solution occurs, where optimal potentials are characteristic functions of a domain. We prove the BVmathrm{BV} regularity of optimal solutions through a regularity result for PDEs. Some numerical simulations show the behavior of optimal potentials in some particular cases.
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Giacomo Canevari, Federico Luigi Dipasquale, Giandomenico Orlandi
We consider a gauge-invariant Ginzburg–Landau functional (also known as Abelian Yang–Mills–Higgs model), on Hermitian line bundles over closed Riemannian manifolds of dimension n≥3{ngeq 3}. Assuming a logarithmic energy bound in the coupling parameter, we study the asymptotic behaviour of critical points in the London limit. After a convenient choice of the gauge, we show compactness of finite-energy critical points in Sobolev norms. Moreover, thanks to a suitable monotonicity formula, we prove that the energy densities of critical points, rescaled by the logarithm of the coupling parameter, converge to the weight measure of a stationary, rectifiable varifold of codimension 2.
我们考虑在维数为 n ≥ 3 {ngeq 3} 的封闭黎曼流形上的赫米线束上的轨距不变金兹堡-朗道函数(也称为阿贝尔杨-米尔斯-希格斯模型)。假定耦合参数有对数能量约束,我们研究伦敦极限临界点的渐近行为。在方便地选择了量规之后,我们证明了有限能量临界点在索波列夫规范中的紧凑性。此外,得益于一个合适的单调性公式,我们证明了临界点的能量密度经耦合参数的对数重估后,会收敛到一个静止的、可整流的、标度为 2 的变折点的权重度量。
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We consider a range of geometric stability problems for hypersurfaces of spaceforms. One of the key results is an estimate relating the distance to a geodesic sphere of an embedded hypersurface with integral norms of the traceless Hessian operator of a level set function for the open set bounded by the hypersurface. As application, we give a unified treatment of many old and new stability problems arising in geometry and analysis. Those problems ask for spherical closeness of a hypersurface, given a geometric constraint. Examples include stability in Alexandroff’s soap bubble theorem in space forms, Serrin’s overdetermined problem, a Steklov problem involving the bi-Laplace operator and non-convex Alexandroff–Fenchel inequalities.
{"title":"Stability from rigidity via umbilicity","authors":"Julian Scheuer","doi":"10.1515/acv-2023-0119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/acv-2023-0119","url":null,"abstract":"We consider a range of geometric stability problems for hypersurfaces of spaceforms. One of the key results is an estimate relating the distance to a geodesic sphere of an embedded hypersurface with integral norms of the traceless Hessian operator of a level set function for the open set bounded by the hypersurface. As application, we give a unified treatment of many old and new stability problems arising in geometry and analysis. Those problems ask for spherical closeness of a hypersurface, given a geometric constraint. Examples include stability in Alexandroff’s soap bubble theorem in space forms, Serrin’s overdetermined problem, a Steklov problem involving the bi-Laplace operator and non-convex Alexandroff–Fenchel inequalities.","PeriodicalId":49276,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Calculus of Variations","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140811699","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
We study the regularity of the free boundary in the fully nonlinear parabolic thin obstacle problem. Under the assumption of time semiconvexity, our main result establishes that the free boundary is a