Emil Wiedemann

University of British Columbia
Scientific, Distinguished Lecture
Diff. Geom, Math. Phys., PDE Seminar: Emil Wiedemann
September 18, 2012
University of British Columbia
Since the famous work of V. Scheffer about 20 years ago, it has been known that the Cauchy problem for the incompressible Euler equations has non-unique weak solutions. Recently, De Lellis and Szekelyhidi demonstrated that this phenomenon can be...
Scientific, Seminar
Diff. Geom, Math. Phys., PDE Seminar: Emil Wiedemann
September 17, 2013
University of British Columbia
It is well-known that variational problems may fail to have a classical minimiser if the integrand is not convex. In the 1930s, L. C. Young suggested a relaxation of such problems, where the minimising map is allowed to be measure-valued. In physical...