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The sharp $L^p$ Korn interpolation and second inequalities in thin domains

Analysis of PDEs 2020-04-14 v3

Abstract

In the present paper we extend the L2L^2 Korn interpolation and second inequalities in thin domains, proven in [\ref{bib:Harutyunyan.4}], to the space LpL^p for any 1<p<.1<p<\infty. A thin domain in space is roughly speaking a shell with non-constant thickness around a smooth enough two dimensional surface. The inequality that we prove in LpL^p holds for practically any thin domain ΩR3\Omega\subset\mathbb R^3 and any vector field \BuW1,p(Ω).\Bu\in W^{1,p}(\Omega). The constants in the estimate are asymptotically optimal in terms of the domain thickness h.h. This in particular solves the problem of finding the asymptotics of the optimal constant in the classical Korn second inequality in LpL^p for thin domains in terms of the domain thickness in almost full generality. The remarkable fact is that the interpolation inequality reduces the problem of estimating the gradient \Bu\nabla\Bu in terms of the strain e(\Bu)e(\Bu) to the easier problem of estimating only the vector field \Bu\Bu, which is a Korn-Poincar\'e inequality.

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@article{arxiv.1809.04439,
  title  = {The sharp $L^p$ Korn interpolation and second inequalities in thin domains},
  author = {Davit Harutyunyan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.04439},
  year   = {2020}
}

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arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1709.04572

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