Existence of minimal energy configurations of nematic liquid crystals with variable degree of orientation.
n this note we describe some recent developments of the theory of flows associated to vector fields with a low regularity with respect to the spatial variables, for instance with a Sobolev or BV regularity. After the illustration of some applica- tions of this theory to conservation laws and PDE's in fluid dynamics, we give an axiomatic presentation of the problem, based on a probabilistic approach inspired by the work of L.C. Young. In the final part we discuss very recent results on the regularity...
In questa conferenza descrivo alcuni recenti sviluppi relativi al problema dell'unicità per l'equazione differenziale ordinaria e per l'equazione di continuità per campi vettoriali debolmente differenziabili. Descrivo infine un'applicazione di questi risultati a un sistema di leggi di conservazione.
In this paper we describe some recent progress on the theory of sets of finite perimeter, currents, and rectifiability in metric spaces. We discuss the relation between intrinsic and extrinsic theories for rectifiability
In questo lavoro riassumiamo alcuni risultati di una ricerca riguardante le singolarità (punti di non differenziabilità) delle funzioni convesse. Questa ricerca copre vari aspetti, che vanno dalla stima della dimensione di Hausdorff di certi tipi di singolarità fino allo studio della loro propagazione. Studiamo anche problemi di semicontinuità e rilassamento collegati all'area del grafico del gradiente di una funzione convessa e l'esistenza dei determinanti, in senso debole, dei minori della matrice...
Given an open subset of and a Borel function , conditions on are given which assure the lower semicontinuity of the functional with respect to different topologies.
Given an open subset of and a Borel function , conditions on are given which assure the lower semicontinuity of the functional with respect to different topologies.
A survey on the main results of the theory of gradient flows in metric spaces and in the Wasserstein space of probability measures obtained in [3] and [4], is presented.
Given an open set Ω ⊂ Rm and n > 1, we introduce the new spaces GBnV(Ω) of Generalized functions of bounded higher variation and GSBnV(Ω) of Generalized special functions of bounded higher variation that generalize, respectively, the space BnV introduced by Jerrard and Soner in [43] and the corresponding SBnV space studied by De Lellis in [24]. In this class of spaces, which allow as in [43] the description of singularities of codimension n, the distributional jacobian Ju need not have finite...
We study points of density of sets of finite perimeter in infinite-dimensional Gaussian spaces and prove that, as in the finite-dimensional theory, the surface measure is concentrated on this class of points. Here density is formulated in terms of the pointwise behaviour of the Ornstein-Uhlembeck semigroup.
In this note, we prove that on a surface with Alexandrov’s curvature bounded below, the distance derives from a Riemannian metric whose components, for any p ∈ [1, 2), locally belong to W1,p out of a discrete singular set. This result is based on Reshetnyak’s work on the more general class of surfaces with bounded integral curvature.
In this paper we summarize some of the main results of a forthcoming book on this topic, where we examine in detail the theory of curves of maximal slope in a general metric setting, following some ideas introduced in [11, 5], and study in detail the case of the Wasserstein space of probability measures. In the first part we derive new general conditions ensuring convergence of the implicit time discretization scheme to a curve of maximal slope, the uniqueness, and the error estimates. In the second...
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