a Department of Mathematics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22902, USA b Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA
Abstract:
Consider two types of translation-invariant functionals and on , and a sequence of functions fn whose corresponding symmetric rearrangements are convergent. We show that fn themselves converge up to translations if either or . These compactness results lead to applications in variational problems and stability problems in stellar dynamics.