Existence of minimizers for non-quasiconvex functionals arising in optimal design

DOI10.1016/S0294-1449(98)80120-0zbMath0913.49008OpenAlexW1972623390MaRDI QIDQ1389830

Grégoire Allaire, Gilles A. Francfort

Publication date: 30 May 1999

Published in: Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré. Analyse Non Linéaire (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://www.numdam.org/item?id=AIHPC_1998__15_3_301_0

zbMATH Keywords

homogenizationintegral functionaloptimal designquadratic Kohn-Strang type functionalsshape optimization problems in electrostaticsweakly lower-semicontinuous

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methods involving semicontinuity and convergence; relaxation (49J45) Optimization of shapes other than minimal surfaces (49Q10)

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