Functionals with linear growth defined on vector valued BV functions

Absolutely continuous real functions of several variables, functions of bounded variation (26B30) Integration theory via linear functionals (Radon measures, Daniell integrals, etc.), representing set functions and measures (28C05) Nonsmooth analysis (49J52) Numerical methods of relaxation type (49M20)

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The work is concerned with the study of the relaxation (w.r.t. \(L^ 1\) convergence) of integral functionals of the following kind \[ F(u,A)=\int_{A}f(x,u,\nabla u)dx,\quad u\in C^ 1(\Omega,{\mathbb{R}}^ k),\quad A\subset \Omega \subset {\mathbb{R}}^ n, \] where f is a continuous integrand such that f(x,u,\(\cdot)\) is convex, sublinear and 1-positively homogeneous. The authors give, in the lattice of Borel measures, an upper bound to the relaxed functional for \(u\in BV(\Omega,{\mathbb{R}}^ k)\), by means of the sum of two suitable integrals, focusing on the contribution of the ``jumps of the argument u. In the last section applications have been given to prove that some relaxed functionals are traces of Borel measures for any \(u\in L^ 1(\Omega,{\mathbb{R}}^ k)\). The techniques used are from real analysis and measure theory, and a fundamental point of view is the ``localization of a functional by considering it also depending on the domain of integration. The work could be seen as a first step towards a generalization of the results obtained by \textit{G. Dal Maso} for integrals defined on real valued functions [Manuscr. Math. 30, 387-416 (1980; Zbl 0435.49016)]. Similar results, for integrals depending on vector valued Radon measures, have been obtained by G. Bouchitte (to appear) using convex functional analysis.

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