About stability of equilibrium shapes

Marc Dambrine; Michel Pierre

ESAIM: Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis (2010)

  • Volume: 34, Issue: 4, page 811-834
  • ISSN: 0764-583X

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We discuss the stability of "critical" or "equilibrium" shapes of a shape-dependent energy functional. We analyze a problem arising when looking at the positivity of the second derivative in order to prove that a critical shape is an optimal shape. Indeed, often when positivity -or coercivity- holds, it does for a weaker norm than the norm for which the functional is twice differentiable and local optimality cannot be a priori deduced. We solve this problem for a particular but significant example. We prove "weak-coercivity" of the second derivative uniformly in a "strong" neighborhood of the equilibrium shape.

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Dambrine, Marc, and Pierre, Michel. "About stability of equilibrium shapes." ESAIM: Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis 34.4 (2010): 811-834. <http://eudml.org/doc/197610>.

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