Dimension reduction for the micromagnetic energy functional on curved   thin films
  Recently a significant interest in ferromagnetic curved thin films has appeared. In particular, thin spherical shells are currently of great interest due to their capability to support skyrmion solutions which can be stabilized by curvature effects only, in contrast to the planar case where the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction is required. This paper aims to a $\Gamma$-asymptotic analysis of the micromagnetic energy functional, when the shell is generated, like in the case of a sphere, by a bounded, convex and smooth surface. 
Giovanni Di Fratta
math.AP cond-mat.mes-hall cond-mat.mtrl-sci math-ph math.MP