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Analytic and geometric properties of dislocation singularities

Part of: Existence theories Manifolds General theory of differentiable manifolds Linear function spaces and their duals Equilibrium (steady-state) problems Analytic spaces Global differential geometry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2019

Riccardo Scala  and
Nicolas Van Goethem
Riccardo Scala
Affiliation:
Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências, Departamento de Matemática, CMAFcIO, Alameda da Universidade, 1749-016Lisboa, Portugal (rscala@fc.ul.pt; vangoeth@fc.ul.pt)
Nicolas Van Goethem
Affiliation:
Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências, Departamento de Matemática, CMAFcIO, Alameda da Universidade, 1749-016Lisboa, Portugal (rscala@fc.ul.pt; vangoeth@fc.ul.pt)
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Abstract

This paper deals with the analysis of the singularities arising from the solutions of the problem ${-}\,{\rm Curl\ } F=\mu $, where F is a 3 × 3 matrix-valued Lp-function ($1\les p<2$) and μ a 3 × 3 matrix-valued Radon measure concentrated in a closed loop in Ω ⊂ ℝ3, or in a network of such loops (as, for instance, dislocation clusters as observed in single crystals). In particular, we study the topological nature of such dislocation singularities. It is shown that $F=\nabla u$, the absolutely continuous part of the distributional gradient Du of a vector-valued function u of special bounded variation. Furthermore, u can also be seen as a multi-valued field, that is, can be redefined with values in the three-dimensional flat torus 𝕋3 and hence is Sobolev-regular away from the singular loops. We then analyse the graphs of such maps represented as currents in Ω × 𝕋3 and show that their boundaries can be written in term of the measure μ. Readapting some well-known results for Cartesian currents, we recover closure and compactness properties of the class of maps with bounded curl concentrated on dislocation networks. In the spirit of previous work, we finally give some examples of variational problems where such results provide existence of solutions.

Keywords

Cartesian mapsinteger-multiplicity currentstorus-valued mapsdislocation singularityvariational problem

MSC classification

Primary: 58A25: Currents
Secondary: 46E40: Spaces of vector- and operator-valued functions 32C30: Integration on analytic sets and spaces, currents 49Q15: Geometric measure and integration theory, integral and normal currents 53C65: Integral geometry 49J45: Methods involving semicontinuity and convergence; relaxation 74G65: Energy minimization
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Research Article
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A: Mathematics , Volume 150 , Issue 4 , August 2020 , pp. 1609 - 1651
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