Calculus of Variations and Geometric Measure Theory

On a conjecture of De Giorgi on the first variation of the Modica-Mortola functional

Giovanni Bellettini (Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione e Scienze Matematiche, Univ. Siena, and International Centre of Theoretical Physics ICTP, Mathematics Section)

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18 nov 2021 -- 14:00   [open in google calendar]

Online (Lisbon time)

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Abstract.

We shall discuss some (not so recent) results on a 1991 conjecture of De Giorgi concerning the Gamma limit of the square norm of the first variation of the Modica-Mortola functionals, and its relation with the Willmore functional.