Whirl Mappings on Generalised Annuli and the Incompressible Symmetric Equilibria of the Dirichlet Energy

Journal of Elasticity - Tập 133 - Trang 201-222 - 2018
Charles Morris1, Ali Taheri1
1Department of Mathematics, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK

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In this paper we show a striking contrast in the symmetries of equilibria and extremisers of the total elastic energy of a hyperelastic incompressible annulus subject to pure displacement boundary conditions. Indeed upon considering the equilibrium equations, here, the nonlinear second order elliptic system formulated for the deformation $u=(u_{1}, \ldots, u_{N})$ : $$ {\mathbb{E}} {\mathbb{L}}[u, {\mathbf {X}}] = \left \{ \textstyle\begin{array}{l@{\quad}l} \Delta u = \operatorname{div}(\mathscr{P} (x) \operatorname{cof} \nabla u) & \textrm{in }{\mathbf {X}},\\ \det\nabla u = 1 & \textrm{in }{\mathbf {X}},\\ u \equiv\varphi& \textrm{on }\partial{\mathbf {X}}, \end{array}\displaystyle \right . $$ where ${\mathbf {X}}$ is a finite, open, symmetric $N$ -annulus (with $N \ge2$ ), $\mathscr{P}=\mathscr{P}(x)$ is an unknown hydrostatic pressure field and $\varphi$ is the identity mapping, we prove that, despite the inherent rotational symmetry in the system, when $N=3$ , the problem possesses no non-trivial symmetric equilibria whereas in sharp contrast, when $N=2$ , the problem possesses an infinite family of symmetric and topologically distinct equilibria. We extend and prove the counterparts of these results in higher dimensions by way of showing that a similar dichotomy persists between all odd vs. even dimensions $N \ge4$ and discuss a number of closely related issues.

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