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Geometric constraints on the domain for a class of minimum problems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2003

Graziano Crasta  and
Annalisa Malusa
Graziano Crasta
Affiliation:
Dip. di Matematica, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy; crasta@mat.uniroma1.it. malusa@mat.uniroma1.it.
Annalisa Malusa
Affiliation:
Dip. di Matematica, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy; crasta@mat.uniroma1.it. malusa@mat.uniroma1.it.
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Abstract

We consider minimization problems of the form ${\rm min}_{u\in \varphi +W^{1,1}_0(\Omega)}\int_\Omega [f(Du(x))-u(x)]\, {\rm d}x$ where $\Omega\subseteq \mathbb{R}^N$ is a bounded convex open set, and the Borel function $f\colon \mathbb{R}^N \to [0, +\infty]$ is assumed to be neither convex nor coercive. Under suitable assumptions involving the geometry of Ω and the zero level set of f, we prove that the viscosity solution of a related Hamilton–Jacobi equation provides a minimizer for the integral functional.

Keywords

Calculus of Variationsexistencenon-convex problemsnon-coercive problemsviscosity solutions.
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Research Article
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ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations , Volume 9 , January 2003 , pp. 125 - 133
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© EDP Sciences, SMAI, 2003

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