Existence theorems for discontinuous solutions in optimization problems

It is a survey on several recent papers by the authors devoted to the analysis of integral functionals with linear growth in the gradient. Specifically, the problem is to investigate the lower semicontinuity properties of \[ u\mapsto I(u):=\int_\Omega f(x,u(x),Du(x))\, dx \] subject to constraints of the type \((x,u(x))\in A\), \(Du(x)\in Q(x,u(x))\). Using a relaxed functional \(\overline{I}\) on \(\text{BV}\) spaces quite general existence results can be achieved, and the knowledge of the semicontinuity of \(I\) (under convexity or quasi convexity of \(f(x,s,\cdot)\), coupled with suitable equi-continuity assumptions on \(f(\cdot,\cdot,z)\) and hypotheses on \(A\), \(Q\)) is important to show that \(\overline{I}\) is an extension of \(I\). Moreover, the same methods used to show the lower semicontinuity of \(I\) can be used to estimate \(\overline{I}(u)\) from below, for \(u\in\text{BV}\), by \[ \int_\Omega f(x,u(x),{\mathcal D}u(x))\, dx, \] where \({\mathcal D}u\) is the approximate differential of \(u\). The main technical tool in the proofs is the so-called mean value convergence: a sequence \((u_h)\) of functions defined in \(\Omega\subset {\mathbb R}^n\) converges to \(u\) in the \(mv\)-sense if \[ \lim_{\rho\downarrow 0}\lim_{h\to\infty}{1\over\omega_n\rho^n} \int_{B_\rho(x)}u_h(y)\, dy=u(x)\quad \text{ for a.e. }x\in\Omega. \]

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