Complete representation of some functionals showing the Lavrentieff phenomenon
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 July 2007
Abstract
The functional F(u) = ∫Bf(x, Du) is considered, where B is the unit ball in R2, u varies in the set of the locally Lipschitz functions on R2 and f belongs to a family containing, as model case, the following integrand:
The computation of the relaxed functional F̄ is provided yielding an explicit representation formula.
This formula nevertheless is not integral, because F̄ is not a measure and does not coincide with the obvious extension of F over all W1,p(B).
This phenomenon is essentially due to the non-standard growth behaviour of f(x, z) in the variable z.
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- Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A: Mathematics , Volume 131 , Issue 4 , August 2001 , pp. 811 - 832
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