English edit

 
English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Named after German mathematician Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (1805-1859), who made significant contributions to the theory of Fourier series.

Noun edit

Dirichlet energy (plural Dirichlet energies)

  1. (mathematical analysis, functional analysis, Fourier analysis) A quadratic functional which, given a real function defined on an open subset of ℝn, yields a real number that is a measure of how variable said function is.
    • 2005, Roger Moser, Partial Regularity for Harmonic Maps and Related Problems, World Scientific, page 1:
      Variational principles play an important role in both geometry and physics, and one of the key problems with applications in both fields is the variational problem associated to the Dirichlet energy of maps between Riemannian manifolds.
    • 2011, Camillo De Lellis, Emanuele Nunzio Spadaro, Q-valued Functions Revisited, American Mathematical Society, page 28:
      The Dirichlet energy of a function   can be recovered, moreover, as the energy of the composition  , where   is the biLipschitz embedding in Corollary 2.2 (compare with Theorem 2.4).
    • 2015, Sören Bartels, Numerical Methods for Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, Springer, page 89:
      Since the Dirichlet energy is weakly lower semicontinuous and strongly continuous, the linear lower-order terms are weakly continuous on  , and since the finite element spaces are dense in  , we verify that   as  .

Usage notes edit

  • In mathematical terms, given an open set   and a function  , the Dirichlet energy of   is  , where   denotes the gradient vector field of  .

Translations edit

Further reading edit