Existence and regularity of minimizers of nonconvex integrals with p - Q growth

ESAIM - Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 343-358

  Celada, Pietro ^a   Cupini, Giovanni ^b   Guidorzi, Marcello ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Existence; Lipschitz continuity; Nonstandard growth

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONS; OPTIMIZATION;

FUNCTIONALS; LIPSCHITZ CONTINUITY; LOCAL MINIMIZERS; NONSTANDARD GROWTH;

INTEGRAL EQUATIONS;

EID: 34547521194     PISSN: 12928119     EISSN: 12623377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/cocv:2007014     Document Type: Article

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