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On Aviles-Giga limit states with $L^p$ entropy productions

Analysis of PDEs 2026-04-03 v1

Abstract

The Aviles-Giga energy provides sequences of maps converging to weak solutions m ⁣:ΩR2R2m\colon\Omega \subset\mathbb R^2\to\mathbb R^2 of the eikonal equation \begin{align*} \mathrm{div}\, m=0\text{ in }\mathcal D'(\Omega),\quad |m|=1\text{ a.e. in }\Omega\,, \end{align*} whose entropy productions divΦ(m)\mathrm{div}\,\Phi(m) are Radon measures in Ω\Omega, controlled by the energy. Here, the entropies are all C2C^2 vector fields Φ ⁣:S1R2\Phi\colon\mathbb S^1\to\mathbb R^2 such that divΦ(m)=0\mathrm{div}\,\Phi(m_*)=0 for any smooth solution mm_*. It is conjectured that the entropy production measures are concentrated on the one-dimensional jump set of mm, as follows from the chain rule if mm has bounded variation. In particular, the entropy production measures should vanish if they coincide with LpL^p functions: this is what we establish in this note if pp is not too small and under natural boundary conditions.

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@article{arxiv.2604.01439,
  title  = {On Aviles-Giga limit states with $L^p$ entropy productions},
  author = {Xavier Lamy and Andrew Lorent and Guanying Peng},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.01439},
  year   = {2026}
}

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