Total energy of radial mappings

Abstract

The main aim of this paper is to extend one of the main results of Iwaniec and Onninen (Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal., 194: 927-986, 2009). We prove that, the so called total energy functional defined on the class of radial streachings between annuli attains its minimum on a total energy diffeomorphism between annuli. This involves a subtle analysis of some special ODE.