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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 uu 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 ρ\rho is in the dual space of the solution space and ρLp(Rn)\rho\in L^p(\mathbb{R}^n), for some p>n3p>n\geq 3. Moreover, we have uC1,α(Rn)u\in C^{1,\alpha}(\mathbb{R}^n) for some α(0,1)\alpha\in (0,1).

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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

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