Related papers: Harmonic potentials in the de Rham complex
A class of harmonic solutions to the steady Euler equations for incompressible fluids is presented in two dimensions in circular, elliptic and bipolar coordinates. Since the velocity field is solenoidal in this case, it can be written as…
A method is proposed for evaluation of single and double layer potentials of the Laplace and Helmholtz equations on piecewise smooth manifold boundary elements with constant densities. The method is based on a novel two-term decomposition…
We identify the holomorphic de Rham complex of the minimal extension of a meromorphic vector bundle with connexion on a compact Riemann surface X with the L^2 complex relative to a suitable metric on the bundle and a complete metric on the…
We provide a complete motion-planning mechanism that ensures target tracking and obstacle avoidance in a cluttered environment. For a given polyhedral decomposition of the feasible space, we adopt a novel procedure that constrains the agent…
This article studies the harmonicity of vector fields on Riemannian manifolds, viewed as maps into the tangent bundle equipped with a family of Riemannian metrics. Geometric and topological rigidity conditions are obtained, especially for…
We study symplectic Laplacians on compact symplectic manifolds with boundary. These Laplacians are associated with symplectic cohomologies of differential forms and can be of fourth-order. We introduce several natural boundary conditions on…
We consider the problem of recovering the divergence-free velocity field ${\mathbf U}\in\mathbf{L}^2(\Omega)$ of a given vorticity ${\mathbf F}=\mathrm{curl}\,{\mathbf U}$ on a bounded Lipschitz domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^3$. To that…
We consider a problem relating to magnetic confinement devices known as stellarators. Plasma is confined by magnetic fields generated by current-carrying coils, and here we investigate how closely to the plasma they need to be positioned.…
This work develops optimal preconditioners for the discrete H(curl) and H(div) problems on two-dimensional surfaces by nodal auxiliary space preconditioning [R. Hiptmair, J. Xu: SIAM J. Numer. Anal. \textbf{45}, 2483-2509 (2007)]. In…
Knotted fields enrich a variety of physical phenomena, ranging from fluid flows, electromagnetic fields, to textures of ordered media. Maxwell's electrostatic equations, whose vacuum solution is mathematically known as a harmonic field,…
We devise and analyze hybrid polyhedral methods of arbitrary order for the approximation of div-curl systems on three-dimensional domains featuring non-trivial topology. The div-curl systems we are interested in stem from magnetostatics,…
We define and study the harmonic curves on domains in $\mathbb{R}^n$ into the first Heisenberg group $\mathbb{H}^1$. These are the $C^2$-regular mappings which are critical points of the second Dirichlet energy and satisfy the weak…
The geometric Cauchy problem for a class of surfaces in a pseudo-Riemannian manifold of dimension 3 is to find the surface which contains a given curve with a prescribed tangent bundle along the curve. We consider this problem for constant…
We introduce a homothetic extension of classical Weyl integrable geometry by generalizing the usual linear gauge transformations to affine homothetic transformations centered at a distinguished harmonic, scale-invariant form $\alpha_d$.…
The tunneling potential formalism makes it easy to construct exact solutions to the vacuum decay problem in potentials with multiple fields. While some exact solutions for single-field decays were known, we present the first nontrivial…
The purpose of this article is to provide a solution to the $m$-fold Laplace equation in the half space $R_+^d$ under certain Dirichlet conditions. The solutions we present are a series of $m$ boundary layer potentials. We give explicit…
Tangent categories provide an axiomatic framework for understanding various tangent bundles and differential operations that occur in differential geometry, algebraic geometry, abstract homotopy theory, and computer science. Previous work…
In this paper we consider a manifold with a dynamical vector field and inquire about the possible tangent bundle structures which would turn the starting vector field into a second order one. The analysis is restricted to manifolds which…
We prove a global version of the so-called div-curl-lemma, a crucial result for compensated compactness and in homogenization theory, for mixed tangential and normal boundary conditions in bounded weak Lipschitz domains in 3D and weak…
New 2-norm bounds for solutions of planar div-curl boundary value problems on bounded planar regions are described. Prescribed flux, tangential trace and mixed boundary boundary are treated. A harmonic decomposition is used to separate…