The three divergence free matrix fields problem

Details The three divergence free matrix fields problem The three divergence free matrix fields problem

2003-10-23

arxiv.org/abs/math/0310374v1

Mathematics

Analysis of PDEs

15 pages, 1 figure

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We prove that for any connected open set $\Omega\subset \R^n$ and for any set of matrices $K=\{A_1,A_2,A_3\}\subset M^{m\times n}$, with $m\ge n$ and rank$(A_i-A_j)=n$ for $i\neq j$, there is no non-constant solution $B\in L^{\infty}(\Omega,M^{m\times n})$, called exact solution, to the problem Div B=0 \quad \text{in} D'(\Omega,\R^m) \quad \text{and} \quad B(x)\in K \text{a.e. in} \Omega. In contrast, A. Garroni and V. Nesi \cite{GN} exhibited an example of set $K$ for which the above problem admits the so-called approximate solutions. We give further examples of this type. We also prove non-existence of exact solutions when $K$ is an arbitrary set of matrices satisfying a certain algebraic condition which is weaker than simultaneous diagonalizability.

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