Published Paper

Inserted: 26 jul 2004
Last Updated: 23 dec 2005

Journal: Calc. Var. Partial Differential Equations
Volume: 24
Pages: 1-20
Year: 2005

Abstract:

We prove a result concerning the approximation of the elastica functional with a sequence of second order functionals, under radial symmetry assumptions. This theorem is strictly related to a conjecture of De Giorgi \cite{De:90}.