Nonsmooth convex functionals and feeble viscosity solutions of singular Euler-Lagrange equations

DOI10.1007/S00526-014-0786-XMaRDI QIDQ493181zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Nikos Katzourakis

Publication date 11 September 2015

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1308.5918

zbMATH Keywords

Euler-Lagrange equationfeeble viscosity solutionslocal minimizersnonsmooth convex functionals

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Weak solutions to PDEs (35D30) Viscosity solutions to PDEs (35D40) Quasilinear elliptic equations with (p)-Laplacian (35J92) Methods involving semicontinuity and convergence; relaxation (49J45)

Abstract: Let F be nonnegative, convex and smooth off a compact set K. We prove that continuous local minimisers of convex functionals are "very weak" viscosity solutions in the sense of Juutinen-Lindqvist of the highly singular Euler-Lagrange PDE expanded. The hypotheses on F do not guarrantee existence of minimising weak solutions and include the singular p-Laplacian for 1<p<2. A much deeper converse is also true, if K={0} and extra natural assumptions are satisfied. Our main advance is that we introduce systematic "flat" sup-convolution regularisations which apply to general singular nonlinear PDEs in order to cancel the strong singularity of F. As an application we extend a classical theorem of Calculus of Variations regarding existence for the Dirichlet problem. These results extends previous work of Julin-Juutinen and Juutinen-Lindqvist-Manfredi.

Review text

Let \(\Omega\) be an open set. A nonnegative, convex function \(F=F(A)\) in \(C^2(\mathbb{R}^n\setminus {\mathcal K})\) with a closed set \({\mathcal K}\subsetneqq\mathbb{R}^n\) is considered. The author ascertains that local minimizers of \[ E(u,\Omega) := \int_{\Omega} F(Du), \quad \Omega \subseteq\mathbb{R}^n, \tag{1} \] in \((C^0\cap W_{\text{loc}}^{1,1})(\Omega) \) are ``very weak viscosity solutions on \(\Omega\) in the sense of [\textit{P. Juutinen} and \textit{P. Lindqvist}, Commun. Partial Differ. Equations 30, No. 3, 305--321 (2005; Zbl 1115.35029)] of the highly singular expanded Euler-Lagrange equation of (1): \[ F_{AA}(Du) : D^2u = 0.\tag{2} \] Moreover, if in addition \(F\) satisfies one of the three conditions given in the paper then feeble viscosity solutions of (2) on \(\Omega\), which are in \(W_{\text{loc}}^{1,1}(\Omega) \), are continuous weak solutions of the equation \[ \text{Div} (F_A(Du)) = 0. \]

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