Lower bounds for the energy of unit vector fields and applications

DOI10.1006/jfan.1997.3170zbMath0908.58004OpenAlexW2001175750MaRDI QIDQ1381530

Publication date: 9 March 1999

Published in: Journal of Functional Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1006/jfan.1997.3170

zbMATH Keywords

energy estimate Dirichlet energy Ginzburg-Laudau functional

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational problems concerning extremal problems in several variables; Yang-Mills functionals (58E15)

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