scientific article; zbMATH DE number 15340

MaRDI QIDQ3971985zbMATH OpenFDO

Publication date 25 June 1992

Burkill-Cesari process calculus of variations existence of absolute discontinuous minima parametric continuous curves of bounded variation survey Weierstrass integral

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Variational methods applied to PDEs (35A15) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to calculus of variations and optimal control (49-02) Variational problems in a geometric measure-theoretic setting (49Q20)

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[For the entire collection see Zbl 0698.00030.] The author presents a survey of very recent results on optimization problems whose solutions may be surfaces of bounded variation neither necessarily continuous nor of Sobolev class. A calculus of variations for such functions as state variables has been initiated by the author himself, with some collaborators, in two different directions based on the use of the Serrin and the Weierstrass integrals, respectively. In fact, as is well known, the Lebesgue integral may not give a stable value for a minimized functional. To avoid this difficulty, a first approach had been introduced by Weierstrass and also used by Tonelli in his early works on the direct method in the calculus of variations for parametric continuous curves of bounded variation. Subsequently the author had proposed an abstract formulation of the Weierstrass integral, known as the Burkill-Cesari process, which turned out to be a very efficient and dectile tool. Moreover a great dual of work has been developed on the subject by many authors, in particular by the reviewer and his school. Another approach had been introduced by Serrin and also has been studied widely by different schools. The results presented here are the most advanced developments of this research for the case of varieties of bounded variation. In particular the author illustrates here some very recent results he had obtained, together with P. Brandi and A. Salvadori, on the existence of absolute discontinuous minima for an integrand without growth assumptions. He also provides an interesting application to possible connections with weak solutions of conservation laws in the spirit of O. A. Olejnik, E. Conway and J. Smoller.

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