On a canonical extension of Korn's first and Poincaré's inequalities to H(CURL)

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Contributors

  • P. Neff - , University of Duisburg-Essen (Author)
  • D. Pauly - , Institute of Analysis, Fakultät für Mathematik, University of Duisburg-Essen (Author)
  • K. J. Witsch - , University of Duisburg-Essen (Author)

Abstract

We prove a Korn-type inequality in H(Curl; Ω, ℝ 3×3) for tensor fields P mapping Ω to ℝ 3×3. More precisely, let Ω ⊂ ℝ 3 be a bounded domain with connected Lipschitz boundary ∂Ω. Then there exists a constant c > 0 such that, for all tensor fields P ∈ H(Curl; Ω, ℝ 3×3), i. e., all P ∈ H(Curl; Ω, ℝ 3×3) with vanishing tangential trace on ∂Ω. Here the rotation and tangential trace are defined row-wise. For compatible P of form P = ∇v, Curl P = 0, where v ∈ H 1(Ω, ℝ 3) is a vector field with components v n for which ∇v n are normal at ∂Ω, estimates (0. 1) is reduced to a non standard variant of Korn's first inequality:, For skew-symmetric P (with sym P = 0), estimates (0. 1) generates a nonstandard version of Poincaré's inequality. Therefore, the estimate is a generalization of two classical inequalities of Poincaré and Korn. Bibliography: 24 titles.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)721-727
Number of pages7
JournalJournal of Mathematical Sciences (United States)
Volume185
Issue number5
Publication statusPublished - Sept 2012
Peer-reviewedYes

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ORCID /0000-0003-4155-7297/work/145224263