On lower semicontinuity of a defect energy obtained by a singular limit of the Ginzburg–Landau type energy for gradient fields

Optimality conditions for problems involving partial differential equations (49K20) Methods involving semicontinuity and convergence; relaxation (49J45) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Variational problems concerning extremal problems in several variables; Yang-Mills functionals (58E15)

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