The Sobolev class where a weak solution is a local minimizer (Q6149212)

Summary: The aim of this paper is to propose some results which we hope could contribute to understand better \textit{Lavrentiev's phenomenon} for energy integrals as in \[ F(u,\Omega)=\int_\Omega\left\{f(x,Du)+\langle b(x),u\rangle\right\}dx \] under some \(p, q\)-growth conditions as in \[c_1\vert z\vert^p-c_2\le f(x,z)\le c_3\vert z\vert^q+c_4\,; \]in fact, we expect that Lavrentiev's phenomenon does not occur if the quotient \(q/p\) is not too large in dependence of \(n\), for instance, as in the cases -- either scalar or vectorial ones -- that we consider in this manuscript.