Mathematics – Complex Variables
Scientific paper
2012-02-05
Mathematics
Complex Variables
51 pages, 4 figures
Scientific paper
The paper is concerned with mappings between planar domains having least Dirichlet energy. The existence and uniqueness (up to a conformal change of variables in the domain) of the energy-minimal mappings is established within the class $\bar{\mathscr H}_2(X, Y)$ of strong limits of homeomorphisms in the Sobolev space $W^{1,2}(X, Y)$, a result of considerable interest in the mathematical models of Nonlinear Elasticity. The inner variation leads to the Hopf differential $h_z \bar{h_{\bar{z}}} dz \otimes dz$ and its trajectories. For a pair of doubly connected domains, in which $X$ has finite conformal modulus, we establish the following principle: A mapping $h \in \bar{\mathscr H}_2(X, Y)$ is energy-minimal if and only if its Hopf-differential is analytic in $X$ and real along the boundary of $X$. In general, the energy-minimal mappings may not be injective, in which case one observes the occurrence of cracks in $X$. Nevertheless, cracks are triggered only by the points in the boundary of $Y$ where $Y$ fails to be convex. The general law of formation of cracks reads as follows: Cracks propagate along vertical trajectories of the Hopf differential from the boundary of $X$ toward the interior of $X$ where they eventually terminate before making a crosscut.
Iwaniec Tadeusz
Onninen Jani
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