An existence result for a nonconvex variational problem via regularity

ESAIM - Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations

Volumn 7, Issue , 2002, Pages 69-95

  Fonseca, Irene ^a   Fusco, Nicola ^b   Marcellini, Paolo ^c  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Implicit differential equations; Nonconvex variational problems; Regularity; Uniform convexity

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; FUNCTIONS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; INTEGRATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; THEOREM PROVING;

DIRCHLET BOUNDARY CONDITION; NON-HOMOGENEOUS INTEGRAND; NONCONVEX VARIATIONAL PROBLEM; UNIFORM CONVEXITY;

VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

EID: 0036410695     PISSN: 12928119     EISSN: 12623377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/cocv:2002004     Document Type: Article

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