A sharp attainment result for nonconvex variational problems

Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 301-328

  Celada, P ^a   Cupini, G ^b   Guidorzi, M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Convex integration; Existence of minimizers; Nonconvex variational problems

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042664415     PISSN: 09442669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00526-003-0238-5     Document Type: Article

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