Relaxation of singular functionals defined on sobolev spaces

ESAIM - Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations

Volumn 5, Issue , 2000, Pages 71-85

  Belgacem, Hafedh Ben ^a,b  

^a University of Sfax   (Tunisia)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MATHEMATICS IN THE SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Quasiconvexity; Rank one convexity; Weak lower semicontinuity

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; FUNCTIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; RELAXATION PROCESSES; TOPOLOGY;

BOREL MEASURABLE FUNCTION; INTEGRAL REPRESENTATION; SINGULAR FUNCTIONALS; SOBOLEV SPACES;

INTEGRAL EQUATIONS;

EID: 0034425793     PISSN: 12928119     EISSN: 12623377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/cocv:2000102     Document Type: Article

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