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An Obstacle Problem for Elastic Curves: Existence Results

Differential Geometry 2018-12-10 v1

Abstract

We consider an obstacle problem for elastic curves with fixed ends. We attempt to extend the graph approach provided in [8]. More precisely, we investigate nonexistence of graph solutions for special obstacles and extend the class of admissible curves in a way that an existence result can be obtained by a penalization argument.

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@article{arxiv.1812.03095,
  title  = {An Obstacle Problem for Elastic Curves: Existence Results},
  author = {Marius Müller},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.03095},
  year   = {2018}
}

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44 pages, 3 figures

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