Zusammenfassung für den Vortrag am 24.10.2017 (15:15 Uhr)

Oberseminar ANALYSIS - PROBABILITY

Lorenzo Giacomelli (Università di Roma 'La Sapienza')
The 1-harmonic flow

The 1-harmonic flow is the formal gradient flow –with respect to the L²-distance– of the total variation of a manifold-valued unknown function. The problem originates from image processing and has an intrinsic analytical interest as prototype of constrained and vector-valued evolution equations in BV -spaces. I will introduce a notion of solution and I will present existence (and, in some cases, uniqueness) results when the target manifold is either the hyper-octant of a sphere or a connected subarc of a regular Jordan curve. I will also discuss a work in progress concerning local/global-in-time well-posedness in Lipschitz spaces. As all of the above is just a first, tentative step into a rather uncharted territory, I will conclude by highlighting a few basic open questions.