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On functions whose symmetric part of gradient agree and a generalization of Reshetnyak's compactness theorem

Analysis of PDEs 2014-02-19 v4 Classical Analysis and ODEs

Abstract

We consider the following question: Given a connected open domain ΩRn\Omega\subset R^n, suppose u,v:ΩRnu,v:\Omega\rightarrow R^n with det(u)>0\det(\nabla u)>0, det(v)>0\det(\nabla v)>0 a.e. are such that uT(x)u(x)=v(x)Tv(x)\nabla u^T(x)\nabla u(x)=\nabla v(x)^T \nabla v(x) a.e. does this imply a global relation of the form v(x)=Ru(x)\nabla v(x)= R\nabla u(x) a.e. in Ω\Omega where RSO(n)R\in SO(n)? If u,vu,v are C1C^1 it is an exercise to see this true, if u,vW1,1u,v\in W^{1,1} we show this is false. We prove this question has a positive answer if vW1,1v\in W^{1,1} and uW1,nu\in W^{1,n} is a mapping of LpL^p integrable dilatation for p>n1p>n-1. These conditions are sharp in two dimensions and this result represents a generalization of the corollary to Liouville's theorem that states that the differential inclusion uSO(n)\nabla u\in SO(n) can only be satisfied by an affine mapping. Liouville's corollary for rotations has been generalized by Reshetnyak who proved convergence of gradients to a fixed rotation for any weakly converging sequence vkW1,1v_k\in W^{1,1} for which Ωdist(vk,SO(n))dz0ask. \int_{\Omega} \mathrm{dist}(\nabla v_k,SO(n)) dz\rightarrow 0 \text{as} k\rightarrow \infty. Let S()S(\cdot) denote the (multiplicative) symmetric part of a matrix. In Theorem 3 we prove an analogous for any pair of weakly converging sequences vkW1,pv_k\in W^{1,p} and ukW1,p(n1)p1u_k\in W^{1,\frac{p(n-1)}{p-1}} (where p[1,n]p\in \left[1,n\right] and the sequence (uk)(u_k) has its dilatation pointwise bounded above by an LrL^r integrable function, r>n1r>n-1) that satisfy ΩS(uk)S(vk)pdz0\int_{\Omega} \left|S(\nabla u_k)-S(\nabla v_k)\right|^p dz\rightarrow 0 as kk\rightarrow \infty and for which the sign of the det(vk)\det(\nabla v_k) tends to 1 in L1L^1. This result contains Reshetnyak's theorem as the special case (uk)Id(u_k)\equiv Id, p=1.

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@article{arxiv.1105.3993,
  title  = {On functions whose symmetric part of gradient agree and a generalization of Reshetnyak's compactness theorem},
  author = {Andrew Lorent},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1105.3993},
  year   = {2014}
}

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35 pages. Some corrections from previous version