(PS)-weak lower semicontinuity in one dimension: A necessary and sufficient condition

Vasiliu, Daniel; Yan, Baisheng

doi:10.1016/j.na.2005.12.003

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“…Recently, in [14] we have successfully applied the Young measure theory in the one-dimensional case (n = 1) to obtain a necessary and sufficient condition of the (PS)-weak lower semicontinuity for the functional I(u) of the type (1.4) for n = 1 and all m ≥ 1.…”

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On a restricted weak lower semicontinuity for smooth functionals on Sobolev spaces

Vasiliu

Yan²

2006

Indiana Univ. Math. J.

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Abstract. This paper is motivated by a problem suggested in Müller [11] that concerns the weak lower semicontinuity of a smooth integral functional I(u) on a Sobolev space along all its weakly convergent minimizing sequences. Here we study a restricted weak lower semicontinuity of I(u) along all weakly convergent Palais-Smale sequences (that is, sequences {u k } satisfying I (u k ) → 0). In view of Ekeland's variational principle, this restricted weak lower semicontinuity, replacing the usual (unrestricted) weak lower semicontinuity in the direct method of calculus of variations, is sufficient for the existence of minimizers under the standard coercivity assumption. The main purpose of the paper is to study the relationships of this restricted weak lower semicontinuity condition with the usual weak lower semicontinuity condition that is known to be equivalent to the Morrey quasiconvexity in the calculus of variations. We show that the two conditions are not equivalent in general, but are equivalent in certain interesting cases.

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