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In this paper the authors give a new general notion of weak convergence in \(C_p\)--capacity and prove, as a consequence of the main result, the lower semicontinuity of the functionals \[ u\mapsto\int_\Omega f(x,u) d\mu \] with respect to the weak topology of \(H^{1,p}_0(\Omega,\mathbb R^m)\), when \(\Omega\) is a bounded open set in \(\mathbb R^n\), \(1<p<\infty\), \(f:\Omega\times\mathbb R^m \to [0, \infty]\) is a Borel function such that \(f(x,\cdot)\) is lower semicontinuous on \(\mathbb R^m\) for each \(x\in\Omega\), and \(\mu\geq 0\) is a Borel measure on \(\Omega\), which is zero on all Borel sets of \(p\)-capacity zero. A standard application of the direct method of the calculus of variations leads to the existence of a solution of the minimum problem \[ \min_{u\in H^{1,p}_0(\Omega,\mathbb R^m)} \left\{\int_\Omega|Du|^p dx+ \int_\Omega f(x,u) d\mu\right\}, \] provided that there is some \(u\in H^{1,p}_0(\Omega,\mathbb R^m)\) with \[ \int_\Omega|Du|^p dx+ \int_\Omega f(x,u) d\mu<\infty. \] Also existence of solutions for other related minimum vector valued problems is obtained, as well as a new proof of an unpublished interesting result due to Ennio De Giorgi. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0921.00022].