Direct methods in variational field theory

DOI10.1134/S0037446622050056MaRDI QIDQ2088623zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Richard Gratwick, M. A. Sychev

Publication date 6 October 2022

Published in Siberian Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1134/s0037446622050056

zbMATH Keywords

direct methodellipticityEuler equationintegral functionalminimizersingular extremalWeierstras-Hilbert field theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Existence theories for optimal control problems involving relations other than differential equations (49J21) Optimality conditions for free problems in one independent variable (49K05)

Review text

In this short paper, the authors show that the classical Weierstras-Hilbert field theory can be extended. From the fact that for each extremal field it is true that if an extremal is an element of the field, then a minimum is attained in the class of Sobolev functions with the same boundary data as for the extremal and with graphs in the set covered by the field, the authors derive that this result remains valid if one of the extremals is singular. On the other hand, it is shown that if there is a field containing more than one singular extremal, then each of these extremals defines the minimization problem with having no solution in the class of Lipschitz functions with graphs in the set covered by the field. The new results are collected in the first section and the rest of the paper is dedicated to the proofs of the main theorem, what makes it to an easy to read contribution to this field.

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