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Simmetrizzazione e disuguaglianze di tipo Pòlya-Szegö

Nicola Fusco — 2005

Bollettino dell'Unione Matematica Italiana

Si presentano alcuni risultati recenti riguardanti la disuguaglianza di Pòlya- Szegö e la caratterizzazione dei casi in cui essa si riduce ad un'uguaglianza. Particolare attenzione viene rivolta alla simmetrizzazione di Steiner di insiemi di perimetro finito e di funzioni di Sobolev.

On a conjecture by Auerbach

Nicola FuscoA. Pratelli — 2011

Journal of the European Mathematical Society

In 1938 Herman Auerbach published a paper where he showed a deep connection between the solutions of the Ulam problem of floating bodies and a class of sets studied by Zindler, which are the planar sets whose bisecting chords all have the same length. In the same paper he conjectured that among Zindler sets the one with minimal area, as well as with maximal perimeter, is the so-called “Auerbach triangle”. We prove this conjecture.

An existence result for a nonconvex variational problem via regularity

Irene FonsecaNicola FuscoPaolo Marcellini — 2002

ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations

Local Lipschitz continuity of minimizers of certain integrals of the Calculus of Variations is obtained when the integrands are convex with respect to the gradient variable, but are not necessarily uniformly convex. In turn, these regularity results entail existence of minimizers of variational problems with non-homogeneous integrands nonconvex with respect to the gradient variable. The x -dependence, explicitly appearing in the integrands, adds significant technical difficulties in the proof.

Topological degree, Jacobian determinants and relaxation

Irene FonsecaNicola FuscoPaolo Marcellini — 2005

Bollettino dell'Unione Matematica Italiana

A characterization of the total variation T V u , Ω of the Jacobian determinant det D u is obtained for some classes of functions u : Ω R n outside the traditional regularity space W 1 , n Ω ; R n . In particular, explicit formulas are deduced for functions that are locally Lipschitz continuous away from a given one point singularity x 0 Ω . Relations between T V u , Ω and the distributional determinant Det D u are established, and an integral representation is obtained for the relaxed energy of certain polyconvex functionals at maps u W 1 , p Ω ; R n W 1 , Ω x 0 ; R n .

An existence result for a nonconvex variational problem via regularity

Irene FonsecaNicola FuscoPaolo Marcellini — 2010

ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations

Local Lipschitz continuity of minimizers of certain integrals of the Calculus of Variations is obtained when the integrands are convex with respect to the gradient variable, but are . In turn, these regularity results entail existence of minimizers of variational problems with non-homogeneous integrands with respect to the gradient variable. The -dependence, explicitly appearing in the integrands, adds significant technical difficulties in the proof.

Lower semicontinuity and relaxation results in BV for integral functionals with BV integrands

Nicola FuscoVirginia De CiccoMicol Amar — 2008

ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations

New L 1 -lower semicontinuity and relaxation results for integral functionals defined in BV( Ω ) are proved, under a very weak dependence of the integrand with respect to the spatial variable x . More precisely, only the lower semicontinuity in the sense of the 1 -capacity is assumed in order to obtain the lower semicontinuity of the functional. This condition is satisfied, for instance, by the lower approximate limit of the integrand, if it is BV with respect to x . Under this further BV dependence, a...

Lower semicontinuity and relaxation results in BV for integral functionals with BV integrands

Micol AmarVirginia De CiccoNicola Fusco — 2007

ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations

New -lower semicontinuity and relaxation results for integral functionals defined in BV() are proved, under a very weak dependence of the integrand with respect to the spatial variable . More precisely, only the lower semicontinuity in the sense of the -capacity is assumed in order to obtain the lower semicontinuity of the functional. This condition is satisfied, for instance, by the lower approximate limit of the integrand, if it is BV with respect to . Under this further BV dependence, a...

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