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Regularity for a geometrically nonlinear flat Cosserat micropolar membrane shell with curvature

Analysis of PDEs 2022-11-22 v1

Abstract

We consider the rigorously derived thin shell membrane Γ\Gamma-limit of a three-dimensional isotropic geometrically nonlinear Cosserat micropolar model and deduce full interior regularity of both the midsurface deformation m:ωR2R3m:\omega\subset{\mathbb R}^2\to{\mathbb R}^3 and the orthogonal microrotation tensor field R:ωR2SO(3)R:\omega\subset{\mathbb R}^2\to SO(3). The only further structural assumption is that the curvature energy depends solely on the uni-constant isotropic Dirichlet type energy term DR2|DR|^2. We use Rivi\`ere's regularity techniques of harmonic map type systems for our system which couples harmonic maps to SO(3)SO(3) with a linear equation for mm. The additional coupling term in the harmonic map equation is of critical integrability and can only be handled because of its special structure.

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@article{arxiv.2211.10645,
  title  = {Regularity for a geometrically nonlinear flat Cosserat micropolar membrane shell with curvature},
  author = {Andreas Gastel and Patrizio Neff},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.10645},
  year   = {2022}
}
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