Philippe Bolle, Marco Mazzucchelli, Andrea Venturelli
{"title":"On potentials whose level sets are orbits","authors":"Philippe Bolle, Marco Mazzucchelli, Andrea Venturelli","doi":"10.1007/s00526-024-02790-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00526-024-02790-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A level orbit of a mechanical Hamiltonian system is a solution of Newton equation that is contained in a level set of the potential energy. In 2003, Mark Levi asked for a characterization of the smooth potential energy functions on the plane with the property that any point on the plane lies on a level orbit; we call such functions Levi potentials. The basic examples are the radial monotone increasing smooth functions. In this paper we show that any Levi potential that is analytic or has totally path-disconnected critical set must be radial. Nevertheless, we show that every compact convex subset of the plane is the critical set of a Levi potential. A crucial observation for these theorems is that, outside the critical set, the family of level sets of a Levi potential forms a solution of the inverse curvature flow.\u0000</p>","PeriodicalId":9478,"journal":{"name":"Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations","volume":"84 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141741804","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On Ricci flows with closed and smooth tangent flows","authors":"Pak-Yeung Chan, Zilu Ma, Yongjia Zhang","doi":"10.1007/s00526-024-02778-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00526-024-02778-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this paper, we consider Ricci flows admitting closed and smooth tangent flows in the sense of Bamler (Structure theory of non-collapsed limits of Ricci flows, 2020. arXiv:2009.03243). The tangent flow in question can be either a tangent flow at infinity for an ancient Ricci flow, or a tangent flow at a singular point for a Ricci flow developing a finite-time singularity. Among other things, we prove: (1) that in these cases the tangent flow must be unique, (2) that if a Ricci flow with finite-time singularity has a closed singularity model, then the singularity is of Type I and the singularity model is the tangent flow at the singular point; this answers a question proposed in Chow et al. (The Ricci flow: techniques and applications. Part III. Geometric-analytic aspects. Mathematical surveys and monographs, vol 163. AMS, Providence, 2010), (3) a dichotomy theorem that characterizes ancient Ricci flows admitting a closed and smooth backward sequential limit.\u0000</p>","PeriodicalId":9478,"journal":{"name":"Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations","volume":"11 12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141718855","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Regularity in the two-phase Bernoulli problem for the p-Laplace operator","authors":"Masoud Bayrami, Morteza Fotouhi","doi":"10.1007/s00526-024-02789-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00526-024-02789-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We show that any minimizer of the well-known ACF functional (for the <i>p</i>-Laplacian) constitutes a viscosity solution. This allows us to establish a uniform flatness decay at the two-phase free boundary points to improve the flatness, which boils down to <span>(C^{1,eta })</span> regularity of the flat part of the free boundary. This result, in turn, is used to prove the Lipschitz regularity of minimizers by a dichotomy argument. It is noteworthy that the analysis of branch points is also included.\u0000</p>","PeriodicalId":9478,"journal":{"name":"Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations","volume":"37 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141718856","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Extension operators and Korn inequality for variable coefficients in perforated domains with applications to homogenization of viscoelastic non-simple materials","authors":"Markus Gahn","doi":"10.1007/s00526-024-02793-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00526-024-02793-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this paper we present the homogenization for nonlinear viscoelastic second-grade non-simple perforated materials at large strain in the quasistatic setting. The reference domain <span>(Omega _{varepsilon })</span> is periodically perforated and is depending on the scaling parameter <span>(varepsilon )</span> which describes the ratio between the size of the whole domain and the small periodic perforations. The mechanical energy depends on the gradient and also the second gradient of the deformation, and also respects positivity of the determinant of the deformation gradient. For the viscous stress we assume dynamic frame indifference and it is therefore depending on the rate of the Cauchy-stress tensor. For the derivation of the homogenized model for <span>(varepsilon rightarrow 0)</span> we use the method of two-scale convergence. For this uniform <i>a priori</i> estimates with respect to <span>(varepsilon )</span> are necessary. The most crucial part is to estimate the rate of the deformation gradient. Due to the time-dependent frame indifference of the viscous term, we only get coercivity with respect to the rate of the Cauchy-stress tensor. To overcome this problem we derive a Korn inequality for non-constant coefficients on the perforated domain. The crucial point is to verify that the constant in this inequality, which is usually depending on the domain, can be chosen independently of the parameter <span>(varepsilon )</span>. Further, we construct an extension operator for second order Sobolev spaces on perforated domains with operator norm independent of <span>(varepsilon )</span>.</p>","PeriodicalId":9478,"journal":{"name":"Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations","volume":"73 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141718857","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Variational aspects of the generalized Seiberg–Witten functional","authors":"Wanjun Ai, Shuhan Jiang, Jürgen Jost","doi":"10.1007/s00526-024-02771-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00526-024-02771-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this paper, as a step towards a unified mathematical treatment of the gauge functionals from quantum field theory that have found profound applications in mathematics, we generalize the Seiberg–Witten functional that in particular includes the Kapustin–Witten functional as a special case. We first demonstrate the smoothness of weak solutions to this generalized functional. We then establish the existence of weak solutions under the assumption that the structure group of the bundle is abelian, by verifying the Palais–Smale compactness.</p>","PeriodicalId":9478,"journal":{"name":"Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141718854","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Second order necessary condition for a strong minimum in the classical problem of calculus of variations","authors":"A. D. Ioffe","doi":"10.1007/s00526-024-02795-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00526-024-02795-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The paper offers a second order necessary condition for a strong minimum in the standard problem of calculus of variations. No idea of such a result seems to have appeared in the classical theory. But a simple example given in the paper shows that the condition can work when all known conditions fail. At the same time, the proof of the proposition is fairly simple. It is also explained in the paper that the condition effectively works only for problems with integrands not convex with respect to the last (derivative) argument.</p>","PeriodicalId":9478,"journal":{"name":"Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations","volume":"41 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141612924","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Minkowski content estimates for generic area minimizing hypersurfaces","authors":"Xuanyu Li","doi":"10.1007/s00526-024-02791-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00526-024-02791-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Let <span>(Gamma )</span> be a smooth, closed, oriented, <span>((n-1))</span>-dimensional submanifold of <span>(mathbb {R}^{n+1})</span>. It was shown by Chodosh–Mantoulidis–Schulze [6] that one can perturb <span>(Gamma )</span> to a nearby <span>(Gamma ')</span> such that all minimizing currents with boundary <span>(Gamma ')</span> are smooth away from a set with Hausdorff dimension less than <span>(n-9)</span>. We prove that the perturbation can be made such that the singular set of the minimizing current with boundary <span>(Gamma ')</span> has Minkowski dimension less than <span>(n-9)</span>.</p>","PeriodicalId":9478,"journal":{"name":"Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations","volume":"58 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141612816","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A strong form of the quantitative Wulff inequality for crystalline norms","authors":"Kenneth DeMason","doi":"10.1007/s00526-024-02796-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00526-024-02796-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Quantitative stability for crystalline anisotropic perimeters, with control on the oscillation of the boundary with respect to the corresponding Wulff shape, is proven for <span>(nge 3)</span>. This extends a result of Neumayer (SIAM J Math Anal 48:172–1772, 2016) in <span>(n=2)</span>.\u0000</p>","PeriodicalId":9478,"journal":{"name":"Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations","volume":"81 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141612814","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Prashanta Garain, Valerii Pchelintsev, Alexander Ukhlov
{"title":"On the Neumann (p, q)-eigenvalue problem in Hölder singular domains","authors":"Prashanta Garain, Valerii Pchelintsev, Alexander Ukhlov","doi":"10.1007/s00526-024-02788-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00526-024-02788-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In the article we study the Neumann (<i>p</i>, <i>q</i>)-eigenvalue problems in bounded Hölder <span>(gamma )</span>-singular domains <span>(Omega _{gamma }subset {mathbb {R}}^n)</span>. In the case <span>(1<p<infty )</span> and <span>(1<q<p^{*}_{gamma })</span> we prove solvability of this eigenvalue problem and existence of the minimizer of the associated variational problem. In addition, we establish some regularity results of the eigenfunctions and some estimates of (<i>p</i>, <i>q</i>)-eigenvalues.</p>","PeriodicalId":9478,"journal":{"name":"Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141571344","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"BV estimates on the transport density with Dirichlet region on the boundary","authors":"Samer Dweik","doi":"10.1007/s00526-024-02746-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00526-024-02746-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this paper, we prove BV regularity on the transport density in the mass transport problem to the boundary in two dimensions under certain conditions on the domain, the boundary cost and the mass distribution. Moreover, we show by a counter-example that the smoothness of the mass distribution, the boundary and the boundary cost does not imply that the transport density is <span>(W^{1,p})</span>, for some <span>(p>1)</span>.\u0000</p>","PeriodicalId":9478,"journal":{"name":"Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations","volume":"46 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141571347","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}