Convergence of minima for nonequicoercive functionals and related problems (Q1176044)

This paper deals with the asymptotic behavior of a sequence of Dirichlet minimum problems and their solutions, these involve nonequicoercive integral functionals on a bounded domain. This problem is related to problems for partial differential equations on perforated domains and to homogenization problems, here the author treats the problem in the framework of \(\Gamma\) convergence. Convergence results are obtained under certain restrictions on the sets of nonequicoerciveness, here the coefficients of the associated differential equations do not necessarily vanish on the holes. When these coefficients vanish on the holes the hypothesis regarding the structure of the holes can be weakened. The author also gets a convergence result for a corresponding eigenvalue problem, now the functionals have a quadratic integrand and are related to a mixed second order boundary value problem.