On a necessary condition in the calculus of variations

DOI10.1007/BF02848941MaRDI QIDQ2367306zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ruediger Landes

Publication date 8 August 1993

Published in Rendiconti del Circolo Matematico di Palermo (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02848941

zbMATH Keywords

level set Sobolev space weakly lower semicontinuous

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methods involving semicontinuity and convergence; relaxation (49J45)

Review text

On a bounded domain \(\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^ N\) a functional in one of the forms \[ J(u)= \int_ \Omega f(x,u)dx,\quad\text{or}\quad J(u)=\int_ \Omega f(x,\nabla u)dx \] is considered. A functional is termed weakly lower semicontinuous at a level set if its value on the level set does not increase when the level set is weakly closed. The main result of the paper is the following: If a functional is lower semicontinuous at a level set, then either its value on the level set is an extreme value or the integrand \(f\) in the definition of the functional is convex in its second argument. If, in addition, the level set is weakly closed, \(f(x,\cdot)\) is actually affine for almost all \(x\in \Omega\). The functional is studied in appropriate Sobolev space.

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