Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-02T20:28:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DissFGP.pdf: 540224 bytes, checksum: ca4c258e2ca30e30421b0d9b20f4ce80 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-03-03 / Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais / The goal of this work is the detailed study of some topics of Geometric Measure Theory, giving special attention to the n-varifold concept and illustrating its use in the asymptotic behavior of critical points of the energy functional for the van der Waals-Cahn-Hilliard theory of phase transitions. / Este trabalho tem como objetivo o estudo detalhado de alguns tópicos da Teoria Geométrica da Medida, dando atenção especial ao conceito de n-varifold e ilustrando seu uso no comportamento assintótico de pontos críticos do funcional energia da teoria de transição de fases de van der Waals-Cahn-Hilliard.

This work was motivated by the famous Plateau\'s Problem which concerns the existence of a minimizing set of the area functional with prescribed boundary. In order to solve the Plateau\'s Problem, we make use of different theories: the theory of varifolds, currents and locally finite perimeter sets (Caccioppoli sets). Working on the Caccioppoli sets theory, it is straightforward to prove the existence of a minimizing set in some classical problems as the isoperimetric and Plateau\'s problems. If we switch the problem to find the regularity that we can extract of some minimizing set, we come across complicated ideas and tools. Although, the Plateau\'s Problem and other classical problems are well settled. Because of that, we have extensively studied the almost minimizing condition ((; r)-minimizing sets) considered by Maggi ([?]) which subsumes some classical problems. We focused on the regularity theory extracted from this almost minimizing condition. / This work was motivated by the famous Plateau\'s Problem which concerns the existence of a minimizing set of the area functional with prescribed boundary. In order to solve the Plateau\'s Problem, we make use of different theories: the theory of varifolds, currents and locally finite perimeter sets (Caccioppoli sets). Working on the Caccioppoli sets theory, it is straightforward to prove the existence of a minimizing set in some classical problems as the isoperimetric and Plateau\'s problems. If we switch the problem to find the regularity that we can extract of some minimizing set, we come across complicated ideas and tools. Although, the Plateau\'s Problem and other classical problems are well settled. Because of that, we have extensively studied the almost minimizing condition ((; r)-minimizing sets) considered by Maggi ([?]) which subsumes some classical problems. We focused on the regularity theory extracted from this almost minimizing condition.