Title
On p-Harmonic Map Heat Flows for 1<=p<∞ and Their Finite Element Approximations
Abstract
Motivated by emerging applications from imaging processing, this paper studies the heat flow of a generalized p-harmonic map into spheres for the whole spectrum, 1 <= p < infinity, in a unified framework. The existence of global weak solutions is established for the flow using the energy method together with a regularization and a penalization technique. In particular, a BV-solution concept is introduced and the existence of such a solution is proved for the 1-harmonic map heat flow. The main idea used to develop such a theory is to exploit the properties of measures of the forms A . del v and A boolean AND del v, which pair a divergence-L-1, or a divergence-measure, tensor field A and a BV-vector field v. Based on these analytical results, a practical fully discrete finite element method is then proposed for approximating weak solutions of the p-harmonic map heat flow, and the convergence of the proposed numerical method is also established.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1137/070680825
SIAM JOURNAL ON MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
p-harmonic maps,heat flow,penalization,energy method,color image denoising,finite element method
Journal
40
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
4
0036-1410
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
John W. Barrett128461.65
Xiaobing Feng2906112.55
Andreas Prohl330267.29