Cohomology of the variational complex in the class of exterior forms of finite jet order.
There is an obvious topological obstruction for a finite energy unimodular harmonic extension of a -valued function defined on the boundary of a bounded regular domain of . When such extensions do not exist, we use the Ginzburg-Landau relaxation procedure. We prove that, up to a subsequence, a sequence of Ginzburg-Landau minimizers, as the coupling parameter tends to infinity, converges to a unimodular harmonic map away from a codimension-2 minimal current minimizing the area within the homology...
By considering an abelian Chern-Simons model, we are led to study the existence of solutions of the Liouville equation with singularities on a flat torus. A non-existence and degree counting for solutions are obtained. The former result has an application in the Chern-Simons model.
In a recent paper [9] we presented a Galerkin-type Conley index theory for certain classes of infinite-dimensional ODEs without the uniqueness property of the Cauchy problem. In this paper we show how to apply this theory to strongly indefinite elliptic systems. More specifically, we study the elliptic system in Ω, in Ω, u = 0, v = 0 in ∂Ω, (A1) on a smooth bounded domain Ω in for "-"-type Hamiltonians H of class C² satisfying subcritical growth assumptions on their first order derivatives....
Smooth maps between riemannian manifolds are often not strongly dense in Sobolev classes of finite energy maps, and an energy drop in a limiting sequence of smooth maps often is accompanied by the production (or bubbling) of an associated rectifiable current. For finite 2-energy maps from the 3 ball to the 2 sphere, this phenomenon has been well-studied in works of Bethuel-Brezis-Coron and Giaquinta-Modica-Soucek where a finite mass 1 dimensional rectifiable current occurs whose boundary is the...
Étant donnés et un arbre dont chaque sommet est de valence au moins , on étudie la constante de Sobolev d’exposant de , c’est-à-dire la plus petite constante telle que pour tout on ait . Notre motivation vient de la recherche de graphes finis avec des petites constantes de Poincaré d’exposant , en vue d’obtenir des exemples de groupes qui ont la propriété de point fixe sur les espaces .