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Maxwell meets Korn: A new coercive inequality for tensor fields in RN×N with square-integrable exterior derivative

✍ Scribed by Patrizio Neff; Dirk Pauly; Karl-Josef Witsch


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2011
Tongue
English
Weight
131 KB
Volume
35
Category
Article
ISSN
0170-4214

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✦ Synopsis


For a bounded domain with connected Lipschitz boundary, we prove the existence of some c > 0, such that
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holds for all square‐integrable tensor fields , having square‐integrable generalized “rotation” tensor fields and vanishing tangential trace on __∂__Ω, where both operations are to be understood row‐wise. Here, in each row, the operator curl is the vector analytical reincarnation of the exterior derivative d in . For compatible tensor fields T, that is, T = ∇ v, the latter estimate reduces to a non‐standard variant of Korn's first inequality in , namely
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for all vector fields , for which ∇ v~n~,n = 1, … ,N, are normal at __∂__Ω. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.