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Explicit examples of Lipschitz, one-homogeneous solutions of log-singular planar elliptic systems

Analysis of PDEs 2014-09-19 v1

Abstract

We give examples of systems of Partial Differential Equations that admit non-trivial, Lipschitz and one-homogeneous solutions in the form u(R,θ)=Rg(θ)u(R,\theta) = Rg(\theta), where (R,θ)(R,\theta) are plane polar coordinates and g:R2Rmg: \mathbb{R}^{2} \to \mathbb{R}^{m}, m2m \geq 2. The systems are singular in the sense that they arise as the Euler-Lagrange equations of the functionals I(u)=BW(x,u(x))dxI(u) = \int_{B}W(x,\nabla u(x))\,dx, where DFW(x,F)D_{F}W(x,F) behaves like 1x\frac{1}{|x|} as x0|x| \to 0 and WW satisfies an ellipticity condition. Such solutions cannot exist when xDFW(x,F)0|x|D_{F}W(x,F) \to 0 as x0|x| \to 0, so the condition is optimal. The associated analysis exploits the well-known Fefferman-Stein duality. We also discuss conditions for the uniqueness of these one-homogeneous solutions and demonstrate that they are minimizers of certain variational functionals.

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@article{arxiv.1409.5316,
  title  = {Explicit examples of Lipschitz, one-homogeneous solutions of log-singular planar elliptic systems},
  author = {J. Bevan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.5316},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

This paper was submitted to the Journal of the London Mathematical Society on 8 November 2012