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 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 are Radon measures in , controlled by the energy. Here, the entropies are all vector fields such that for any smooth solution . It is conjectured that the entropy production measures are concentrated on the one-dimensional jump set of , as follows from the chain rule if has bounded variation. In particular, the entropy production measures should vanish if they coincide with functions: this is what we establish in this note if 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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