Abstract
We study the minimizers of an energy functional which is obtained as the Γ-limit of a family of functional depending on a small parameter ε > 0, associated with a function u ∈ BV(Ω, S1) and a positive parameter p. We find necessary and sufficient conditions on p and the dimension under which these minimizers coincide with the optimal liftings of u, for every u ∈ BV(Ω, S1).
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 447-472 |
| Number of pages | 26 |
| Journal | Communications in Contemporary Mathematics |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1 Aug 2007 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Functions of bounded variation
- Lifting
- Γ-limit
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Mathematics
- Applied Mathematics