Maximum principles for vectorial approximate minimizers of nonconvex functionals

DOI10.1007/S00526-012-0491-6MaRDI QIDQ1942221zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 18 March 2013

Published in Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0809.1596, http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11824/512

Euler-Lagrange equation maximum principles nonconvex functionals vectorial approximate minimizers

Maximum principle, Schwarz's lemma, Lindelöf principle, analogues and generalizations; subordination (30C80) Methods involving semicontinuity and convergence; relaxation (49J45) Optimality conditions for problems in abstract spaces (49K27)

Abstract: We establish Maximum Principles which apply to vectorial approximate minimizers of the general integral functional of Calculus of Variations. Our main result is a version of the Convex Hull Property. The primary advance compared to results already existing in the literature is that we have dropped the quasiconvexity assumption of the integrand in the gradient term. The lack of weak Lower Semicontinuity is compensated by introducing a nonlinear convergence technique, based on the approximation of the projection onto a convex set by reflections and on the invariance of the integrand in the gradient term under the Orthogonal Group. Maximum Principles are implied for the relaxed solution in the case of non-existence of minimizers and for minimizing solutions of the Euler-Lagrange system of PDE.

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The author considers the \(\alpha\)-minimizers of functionals like \[ E(u,\Omega) = \int_{\Omega} \mathcal{L} (x, u, Du) dx \] where \(u \in (W^{1,q}(\Omega))^N\) (with some boundary condition) and an \(\alpha\)\textit{-minimizer} (\(\alpha \geqslant 0\)) is a function \(u\) satisfying \[ E(u,\Omega) \leqslant E(u + \phi,\Omega) + \alpha \qquad \text{ for every } \phi \in (W^{1,q}_0(\Omega))^N \, . \] A kind of maximum principle is the so called \textit{convex hull property} which states that \[ u(\Omega) \subset \overline{\text{co}} (u (\partial \Omega)) \, . \] In this paper the author establishes appropriate versions of the convex hull property for approximate minimizers.

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