$\Gamma$-convergence techniques and relaxation results of constrained energy functionals are used to identify the limiting energy as the thickness $\epsilon$ approaches zero of a ferromagnetic thin structure ${\Omega }_{\epsilon }=\omega \times (-\epsilon ,\epsilon )$, $\omega \subset {ℝ}^2$, whose energy is given by$${ℰ}_{\epsilon }\left(\overline{m}\right)=\frac{1}{\epsilon }{\int }_{{\Omega }_{\epsilon }}\left(W(\overline{m},\nabla \overline{m})+\frac{1}{2}\nabla \overline{u}·\overline{m}\right)\mathrm{d}x$$subject to$$\text{div}(-\nabla \overline{u}+\overline{m}{\chi }_{{\Omega }_{\epsilon }})=0\text{on}{ℝ}^3,$$and to the constraint$$|\overline{m}|=1\text{on}{\Omega }_{\epsilon },$$where $W$ is any continuous function satisfying $p$-growth assumptions with $p\>1$. Partial results are also obtained in the case $p=1$, under an additional assumption on $W$.

Γ-convergence techniques and relaxation results of constrained energy functionals are used to identify the limiting energy as the thickness ε approaches zero of a ferromagnetic thin structure ${\Omega }_{\epsilon }=\omega \times (-\epsilon ,\epsilon )$, $\omega \subset {ℝ}^2$, whose energy is given by $${ℰ}_{\epsilon }\left(\overline{m}\right)=\frac{1}{\epsilon }{\int }_{{\Omega }_{\epsilon }}\left(W(\overline{m},\nabla \overline{m})+\frac{1}{2}\nabla \overline{u}·\overline{m}\right)\mathrm{d}x$$ subject to $$\text{div}(-\nabla \overline{u}+\overline{m}{\chi }_{{\Omega }_{\epsilon }})=0\text{on}{ℝ}^3,$$ and to the constraint $$|\overline{m}|=1\text{on}{\Omega }_{\epsilon },$$ where W is any continuous function satisfying p-growth assumptions with p> 1. Partial results are also obtained in the case p=1, under an additional assumption on W.

In this paper, we prove that the $L^p$ approximants naturally associated to a supremal functional $\Gamma$-converge to it. This yields a lower semicontinuity result for supremal functionals whose supremand satisfy weak coercivity assumptions as well as a generalized Jensen inequality. The existence of minimizers for variational problems involving such functionals (together with a Dirichlet condition) then easily follows. In the scalar case we show the existence of at least one absolute minimizer (i.e. local...

In this paper, we use $\Gamma$-convergence techniques to study the following variational problem$$S_{\epsilon }^F\left(\Omega \right):=sup\left\{{\epsilon }^{-2^{*}}{\int }_{\Omega }F\left(u\right)dx:{\int }_{\Omega }{\left|\nabla u\right|}^{2}dx\le {\epsilon }^2,u=0\mathrm{on}\partial \Omega \right\},$$where $0\le F\left(t\right)\le {\left|t\right|}^{2^{*}}$, with $2^{*}=\frac{2n}{n-2}$, and $\Omega$ is a bounded domain of ${ℝ}^n$, $n\ge 3$. We obtain a $\Gamma$-convergence result, on which one can easily read the usual concentration phenomena arising in critical growth problems. We extend the result to a non-homogeneous version of problem $S_{\epsilon }^F\left(\Omega \right)$. Finally, a second order expansion in $\Gamma$-convergence permits to identify the concentration points of the maximizing sequences, also in some non-homogeneous case.

Given an open, bounded and connected set $\mathrm{\Omega }\subset {\mathbb{R}}^n$ with Lipschitz boundary and volume $\left|\mathrm{\Omega }\right|$, we prove that the sequence ${\mathcal{F}}_k$ of Dirichlet functionals defined on $H^1\left(\mathrm{\Omega };{\mathbb{R}}^d\right)$, with volume constraints $v^k$ on $m\ge 2$ fixed level-sets, and such that ${\sum }_{i=1}^m{v}_i^k<\left|\mathrm{\Omega }\right|$ for all $k$, $\mathrm{\Gamma }$-converges, as $v^k\to v$ with ${\sum }_{i=1}^m{v}_i^k=\left|\mathrm{\Omega }\right|$, to the squared total variation on $BV\left(V;{\mathbb{R}}^d\right)$, with $v$ as volume constraint on the same level-sets.

The numerical approximation of the minimum problem: ${min}_{A\subseteq \mathrm{\Omega }}\tilde{\mathcal{F}}\left(A\right)$, is considered, where $\tilde{\mathcal{F}}\left(A\right)=P_{\mathrm{\Omega }}\left(A\right)+\cos \left(\theta \right){\mathcal{H}}^{n-1}\left(\partial A\cap \partial \mathrm{\Omega }\right)-{\int }_A\kappa$. The solution to this problem is a set $A\subseteq \mathrm{\Omega }\subset {\mathbb{R}}^n$ with prescribed mean curvature $\kappa$ and contact angle $\theta$ at the intersection of $\partial A$ with $\partial \mathrm{\Omega }$. The functional $\tilde{\mathcal{F}}$ is first relaxed with a sequence of nonconvex functionals defined in $H^1\left(\mathrm{\Omega }\right)$ which, in turn, are discretized by finite elements. The $\mathrm{\Gamma }$-convergence of the discrete functionals to $\tilde{\mathcal{F}}$ as well as the compactness of any sequence of discrete absolute minimizers are proven.

In this note we give a nonstandard characterization of multiple topological $\mathrm{\Gamma }$ operators as sup-min of standard part map.

The notion of $\mathrm{\Gamma }$-limit is extended from the case of functions with values in $\overline{𝐑}$ to the case of those with values in an arbitrary complete lattice and the problem of convergence of Pareto minima related to a convex cone is considered.

In this paper, we prove that the Lp approximants naturally associated to a supremal functional Γ-converge to it. This yields a lower semicontinuity result for supremal functionals whose supremand satisfy weak coercivity assumptions as well as a generalized Jensen inequality. The existence of minimizers for variational problems involving such functionals (together with a Dirichlet condition) then easily follows. In the scalar case we show the existence of at least one absolute minimizer (i.e. local solution)...

We study the stability of a sequence of integral functionals on divergence-free matrix valued fields following the direct methods of Γ-convergence. We prove that the Γ-limit is an integral functional on divergence-free matrix valued fields. Moreover, we show that the Γ-limit is also stable under volume constraint and various type of boundary conditions.

We compute the Γ-limit of a sequence of non-local integral functionals depending on a regularization of the gradient term by means of a convolution kernel. In particular, as Γ-limit, we obtain free discontinuity functionals with linear growth and with anisotropic surface energy density.