Existence of minimizers for nonconvex, noncoercive simple integrals

SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1118-1140

  Celada, P ^a   Perrotta, S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Existence of solutions; Nonconvex and noncoercive minimum problem; Simple integrals

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; FUNCTIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

NONCONVEX FUNCTION;

INTEGRAL EQUATIONS;

EID: 0041425267     PISSN: 03630129     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0363012901387999     Document Type: Article

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