On the Minimum Problem for a Class of Noncoercive Nonconvex Functionals

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This paper is concerned with problems of the calculus of variations of the form \[ \inf \Biggl\{\int_0^R g(t,v'(t)) dt\mid v\in W^{1,1}([0,R]),\;v(R)=0\Biggr\}, \] where \(g: [0,R]\times {\mathbb R}\rightarrow \overline {\mathbb R}\) is a normal integrand which is not convex, and does not satisfy a superlinear growth condition. The author proves the existence of solutions when \(g^{**}\), the biconjugate function of \(g\) with respect to \(v'\), satisfies Dom~\(g^{**}(t,\cdot)={\mathbb R}\), \(g^{**}(\cdot,\xi)\) is integrable on \([0,R]\) for every \(\xi\in {\mathbb R}\), \(g^{**}(t,\xi)\geq m|\xi|-b(t)\), \(m>0\), and for every \(r_1>0\), there exists \(r_2>0\) such that \(\partial g^*(t,p) \subset B_{r_2}\) if \(\partial g^*(t,p) \cap {\overline {B_{r_1}}}\not =\emptyset\). The proof is based on Lyapunov's convexity theorem. Next the author gives applications to radially symmetric problems.




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