Weak Lower Semicontinuity of Integral Functionals and Applications

DOI10.1137/16M1060947zbMath1378.49011arXiv1601.00390OpenAlexW2230749344WikidataQ56093735 ScholiaQ56093735MaRDI QIDQ4592946

Barbora Benešová, Martin Kružík

Publication date: 9 November 2017

Published in: SIAM Review (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.00390

zbMATH Keywords

quasiconvexitycalculus of variationspolyconvexityweak lower semicontinuitynull Lagrangians

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methods involving semicontinuity and convergence; relaxation (49J45) Kinematics of deformation (74A05) Existence theories for optimal control problems involving partial differential equations (49J20) Variational principles of physics (49S05) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to calculus of variations and optimal control (49-02)

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