Erratum: J. Eur. Math. Soc. 1, 237-311 (1999)
Ce travail est essentiellement consacré aux systèmes dynamiques non conservatifs, la force généralisée dépendant à la fois des paramètres de position et de vitesse . désignant l’espace-temps de configuration, l’espace fibré des vecteurs tangents, celui des directions tangentes à , on caractérise par son lagrangien homogène et le tenseur-force antisymétrique dont le produit contracté par le vecteur vitesse donne le vecteur force généralisé.Dans la première partie, on étudie l’algèbre...
In the present paper the author discusses certain multiple integrals of the calculus of variations satisfying convexity conditions, and no growth property, and the corresponding Serrin integrals , to which the existence theorems in [3,4,5] do not apply. However, in the present paper, the integrals and are reduced to simpler form and to which the existence theorems above apply. Thus, we derive that , , we obtain the existence of the absolute minimum for the Serrin forms and , and...
We consider general surface energies, which are weighted integrals over a closed surface with a weight function depending on the position, the unit normal and the mean curvature of the surface. Energies of this form have applications in many areas, such as materials science, biology and image processing. Often one is interested in finding a surface that minimizes such an energy, which entails finding its first variation with respect to perturbations of the surface. We present a concise derivation...