The effect of a singular perturbation on nonconvex variational problems (Q1104545)

The problem studied in the paper is to minimize \[ F_{\epsilon}(u)=\int_{\Omega}(W(u)+\epsilon | \nabla u|^ 2)dx \] subject to the constraints \(\int_{\Omega}u dx=c\), where \(\Omega\) is an open and bounded set in \(R^ n\), \(u\in L^ 1(\Omega)\), \(W\geq 0\), \(W=0\) at more than one point and \(\epsilon\) is a scalar parameter. It is proved that the minimizer \(u_{\epsilon}\to u_ 0\) in \(L^ 1(\Omega)\), where \(u_ 0\) is a solution of a certain new variational problem. \(\Gamma\)-convergence techniques are utilized.