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Lower semicontinuity of some functionals under the PDE constraints: $\mathcal{A}$-quasiconvex pair
A. V. Demyanov Saint-Petersburg State University
Abstract:
The problem of establishing necessary and sufficient conditions for l.s.c. under the PDE constraints is studied for some special class of functionals:
$$
(u,v,\chi)\mapsto\int_\Omega \biggl\{\chi(x)\cdot F^+(x,u(x),v(x))+(1-\chi(x))\cdot F^-(x,u(x),v(x))\biggr\}\,dx,
$$
with respect to the convergence
$u_n\to u$ in measure,
$v_n\rightharpoonup v$ in
$L_p(\Omega;\mathbb{R}^d)$,
$\mathcal{A}v_n\to0$ in
$W^{-1,p}(\Omega)$ and
$\chi_n\rightharpoonup\chi$ in
$L_p(\Omega)$, where $\chi_n\in
Z:=\{\chi\in L_\infty(\Omega):0\leq\chi(x)\leq1,\text{ a.e. }x\}$.
Here $\mathcal{A}v=\sum_{i=1}^N A^{(i)}\frac{\partial v}{\partial x_i}$ is a constant rank partial differential operator.
The main result is that if the characteristic cone of
$\mathcal{A}$ has the full dimension, then
l.s.c. is equivalent to the fact that
$F^\pm$ are both
$\mathcal{A}$-quasiconvex and for a.e.
$x\in\Omega$, for all
$u\in\mathbb{R}^d$
$$
F^+(x,u,\cdot\,)-F^-(x,u,\cdot\,)\equiv C(x,u).
$$
As a corollary, we obtain the results for the functional
$$
(u,v,\chi)\mapsto\int_\Omega\chi(x)\cdot f(x,u(x),v(x))\,dx,
$$
with respect to the same convergence. We show, that this functional is l.s.c. iff
$$
f(x,u,v)\equiv g(x,u).
$$
UDC:
517 Received: 20.12.2004
Language: English