Abstract: | We consider the problem of minimizing autonomous, multiple integrals like
| () | where
is a continuous, possibly nonconvex function of the gradient variable
. Assuming that the bipolar function f** of f is affine as a function of the gradient
on each connected component of the sections of the detachment set
, we prove attainment for (
) under mild assumptions on f and f**. We present examples that show that the hypotheses on f and f** considered here for attainment are essentially sharp.Received: 12 May 2003, Accepted: 26 August 2003, Published online: 24 November 2003Mathematics Subject Classification (2000):
49J10, 49K10 |