Lower semicontinuity for an integral functional in BV (Q2628985)

A lower semicontinuity result is proved in this paper for a functional of linear growth initially defined in an open set \(\Omega\subset R^n\) by \(\int_\Omega F(dDu/d\mu)d\mu\) for \(u\in BV(\Omega; R^N)\) with \(Du\ll \mu\). The measure is merely assumed to be a positive finite Radon measure that satisfies \(\mathcal{L}^n \ll \mu\), where \(\mathcal{L}^n\) is the Lebesgue measure. The proof relies on the theory of generalized Young measures.