Stable defects of minimizers of constrained variational principles

DOI10.1016/S0294-1449(16)30340-7zbMath0657.49018MaRDI QIDQ1110804

Fang-Hua Lin, David Kinderlehrer, Robert M. Hardt

Publication date: 1988

Published in: Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré. Analyse Non Linéaire (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://www.numdam.org/item?id=AIHPC_1988__5_4_297_0

zbMATH Keywords

harmonic maps constrained variational problems liquid crystals singular set compactness theorems energy density bound interior energy bound

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational problems in a geometric measure-theoretic setting (49Q20) Variational methods for elliptic systems (35J50) Methods involving semicontinuity and convergence; relaxation (49J45) Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30) Harmonic maps, etc. (58E20) Variational methods for second-order elliptic equations (35J20)

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