Heat flow and boundary value problem for harmonic maps
We study the homogenization process of ferromagnetic multilayers in the presence of surface energies: super-exchange, also called interlayer exchange coupling, and surface anisotropy. The two main difficulties are the non-linearity of the Landau-Lifshitz equation and the absence of a good sequence of extension operators for the multilayer geometry. First, we consider the case when surface anisotropy is the dominant term, then the case when the magnitude of the super-exchange interaction is...
We define a mapping which with each function and an admissible value of associates the function with a prescribed initial condition which minimizes the total variation in the -neighborhood of in each subinterval of . We show that this mapping is non-expansive with respect to , and , and coincides with the so-called play operator if is a regulated function.