Regularity of the Eikonal equation with two vanishing entropies
Abstract
The Aviles-Giga functional is a well known second order functional that models phenomena from blistering to liquid crystals. The zero energy states of the Aviles-Giga functional have been characterized by Jabin, Otto, Perthame. Among other results they showed that if for some sequence and then is Lipschitz continuous outside a locally finite set. This is essentially a corollary to their theorem that if is a solution to the Eikonal equation a.e. and if for every "entropy" function satisfies distributionally in then is locally Lipschitz continuous outside a locally finite set. In this paper we generalize this result by showing that if is bounded and simply connected, satisfies the Eikonal equation and if \begin{equation} \label{eqi88} \nabla\cdot\left(\Sigma_{e_1 e_2}(\nabla u^{\perp})\right)=0\text{and}\nabla\cdot\left(\Sigma_{\epsilon_1 \epsilon_2}(\nabla u^{\perp})\right)=0\text{distributionally in}\Omega, \end{equation} where and are the entropies introduced by Ambrosio, DeLellis, Mantegazza, Jin, Kohn, then is locally Lipschitz continuous outside a locally finite set.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1610.00237,
title = {Regularity of the Eikonal equation with two vanishing entropies},
author = {Andrew Lorent and Guanying Peng},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.00237},
year = {2016}
}