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Semicontinuous envelopes of polyconvex integrals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2011

Emilio Acerbi
Affiliation:
Scuola Normale, p. Cavalieri 7, Pisa, Italy
Giuseppe Buttazzo
Affiliation:
Scuola Normale, p. Cavalieri 7, Pisa, Italy

Synopsis

We answer some questions about the semicontinuity in L and in Lp of functionals defined on W1,n (Ωℝn) as integrals of non-convex functions of the gradient matrix, and we give a conjecture for the general case.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1984

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