The electrostatic Born-Infeld equations with integrable charge densities
Analysis of PDEs
2021-01-29 v2 Mathematical Physics
math.MP
Abstract
We study the minimizer of the electrostatic Born--Infeld energy \begin{equation*} \int_{\mathbb{R}^n}1-\sqrt{1-|D v|^2}\ dx-\int_{\mathbb{R}^n}\rho v\ dx, \end{equation*} which vanishes at infinity. We show that the minimizer is strictly spacelike and it is a weak solution to \begin{equation*}-\operatorname{div}\Big(\frac{D u}{\sqrt{1-|D u|^2}}\Big)=\rho,\end{equation*} provided that is in the dual space of the solution space and , for some . Moreover, we have for some .
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@article{arxiv.2006.08208,
title = {The electrostatic Born-Infeld equations with integrable charge densities},
author = {Akseli Haarala},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.08208},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
21 pages, clarified notation, typos corrected, reorganized proof of Theorem 4.2