boundary values and the transformation problem for constant principal strain mappings边界值恒定主应变的映射和转换问题.pdfVIP

IJMMS 2003:12, 739–776 PII. S0161171203204166 © Hindawi Publishing Corp. BOUNDARY VALUES AND THE TRANSFORMATION PROBLEM FOR CONSTANT PRINCIPAL STRAIN MAPPINGS JULIAN GEVIRTZ Received 17 April 2002 We initiate a study of homeomorphisms f with constant principal strains (cps) between smoothly bounded planar domains D , D . An initial result shows that in order for there to be such a mapping of a given Jordan domain D onto D , a certain condition of an isoperimetric nature must be satisfied by the latter. Thereafter, we establish the fundamental fact that principal strain lines (characteristics) of such mappings necessarily have well-defined tangents where they meet ∂D. Using this, we obtain information about the boundary values of the Jacobian transformation of f , and finally we determine the class of all cps-homeomorphisms of a half-plane onto itself. 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 35L45, 35L60, 74B99, 30C35. 1. Introduction. This paper deals with mappings with constant principal strains, that is, mappings f of a planar domain D into R2 for which the prin- cipal stretches of the Jacobian matrix Jf of f at z are distinct positive con- stants m and m . Global properties of such f , to be referred to as (m ,m )- 1 2 1 2 mappings or less specifically as cps-mappings, were studied in [2, 3, 5, 6]. Homeomorphisms of this kind represent 2-dimensional deformations with constant principal strains such as those effected by cryptocrystalline solidi- fication of a planar lamina, in which context the study of global properties of cps-mappings will yield, among other things, information about t