The minimality of the map x/|x| for weighted energy

Details The minimality of the map x/|x| for weighted energy The minimality of the map x/|x| for weighted energy

2006-04-03

arxiv.org/abs/math/0604038v1

Calculus of Variation and P.D.E's 25 (2006) 469-489

Mathematics

Differential Geometry

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In this paper, we investigate the minimality of the map $\frac{x}{\|x\|}$ from the euclidean unit ball $\mathbf{B}^n$ to its boundary $\mathbb{S}^{n-1}$ for weighted energy functionals of the type $E\_{p,f}= \int\_{\mathbf{B}^n}f(r)\|\nabla u\|^p dx$, where $f$ is a non-negative function. We prove that in each of the two following cases: i) $p=1$ and $f$ is non-decreasing, i)) $p$ is an integer, $p \leq n-1$ and $f= r^{\alpha}$ with $\alpha \geq 0$, the map $\frac{x}{\|x\|}$ minimizes $E\_{p,f}$ among the maps in $W^{1,p}(\mathbf{B}^n, \mathbb{S}^{n-1})$ which coincide with $\frac{x}{\|x\|}$ on $\partial \mathbf{B}^n$. We also study the case where $ f(r)= r^{\alpha}$ with $-n+2 < \alpha < 0$ and prove that $\frac{x}{\|x\|}$ does not minimize $E\_{p,f}$ for $\alpha$ close to $-n+2$ and when $n \geq 6$, for $\alpha$ close to $4-n$.

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