In this paper we study two weak notions of Jacobian determinant for Sobolev maps, namely the distributional Jacobian and the relaxed total variation, which in general could be different. We show some cases of equality and use them to give an explicit expression for the relaxation of some polyconvex functionals.

Are every two separated nets in the plane bilipschitz equivalent? In the late 1990s, Burago and Kleiner and, independently, McMullen resolved this beautiful question negatively. Both solutions are based on a construction of a density function that is not realizable as the Jacobian determinant of a bilipschitz map. McMullen’s construction is simpler than the Burago–Kleiner one, and we provide a ...

In this study, a chaotic circuit suitable for an integrated circuit is proposed. The circuit consists of two CMOS ring oscillators and a pair of diodes. By using a simplified model of the circuit, the mechanism of generating chaos is explained and the exact solutions are derived. The exact expressions of the Poincaré map and its Jacobian matrix make those possible to confirm the generation of c...

In this paper, we obtain the isoperimetric inequality on a conformally flat manifold with finite total Q-curvature. This is a higher dimensional analog of Li and Tam’s result [“Complete surfaces with finite total curvature.” Journal of Differential Geometry 33 (1991): 139–68] on surfaces with finite total Gaussian curvature. The main step in the proof is based on the construction of a quasiconf...

We sharpen the two main tools used to treat the compactified Jacobian of a singular curve: Abel maps and presentation schemes. First we prove a smoothness theorem for bigraded Abel maps. Second we study the two complementary filtrations provided by the images of certain Abel maps and certain presentation schemes. Third we study a lifting of the Abel map of bidegree (m, 1) to the corresponding p...

We prove a characterization result in the spirit of the Kinderlehrer–Pedregal Theorem for Young measures generated by gradients of Sobolev maps satisfying the orientation-preserving constraint, that is the pointwise Jacobian is positive almost everywhere. The argument to construct the appropriate generating sequences from such Young measures is based on a variant of convex integration in conjun...

Recent characterizations of various types of differentiable generalized monotone maps by Karamardian– Schaible–Crouzeix and their strengthened versions by Crouzeix–Ferland are extended to the nonsmooth case. For nondifferentiable locally Lipschitz maps necessary and/or sufficient conditions for quasimonotonicity, pseudomonotonicity and strict/ strong pseudomonotonicity are derived. To accomplis...

Received April 29, 1999 / final version received July 21, 2000 Published online September 25, 2000 – c Springer-Verlag & EMS 2000 Abstract. For vector valued maps, convergence in W1 1 and of all minors of the Jacobian matrix in L1 is equivalent to convergence weakly in the sense of currents and in area for graphs. We show that maps defined on domains of dimension n 3 can be approximated strongl...