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Multiple nonsmooth solutions for nonconvex variational boundary value problems in $\mathbb{R}^n$

Optimization and Control 2016-07-21 v1

Abstract

This paper presents a set of complete solutions of a nonconvex variational problem with a double-well potential. Based on the canonical duality-triality theory, the associated nonlinear differential equation with either Dirichlet/Neumann or mixed boundary conditions can be converted into an algebraic equation, which can be solved analytically to obtain all solutions in the dual space. Both global and local extremality conditions are identified by the triality theory. In the application part, typical mechanical models with specificsources and boundary conditions in R2\mathbb{R}^2 are exhibited.

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@article{arxiv.1607.05803,
  title  = {Multiple nonsmooth solutions for nonconvex variational boundary value problems in $\mathbb{R}^n$},
  author = {Xiaojun Lu and David Yang Gao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.05803},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

11 pages, 9 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1607.03995

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