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The mean curvature of a Lipschitz continuous manifold

Elisabetta Barozzi, Eduardo Gonzalez, Umberto Massari (2003)

Atti della Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Classe di Scienze Fisiche, Matematiche e Naturali. Rendiconti Lincei. Matematica e Applicazioni

The paper is devoted to the description of some connections between the mean curvature in a distributional sense and the mean curvature in a variational sense for several classes of non-smooth sets. We prove the existence of the mean curvature measure of E by using a technique introduced in [4] and based on the concept of variational mean curvature. More precisely we prove that, under suitable assumptions, the mean curvature measure of E is the weak limit (in the sense of distributions) of the mean...

The Monge problem for strictly convex norms in d

Thierry Champion, Luigi De Pascale (2010)

Journal of the European Mathematical Society

We prove the existence of an optimal transport map for the Monge problem in a convex bounded subset of d under the assumptions that the first marginal is absolutely continuous with respect to the Lebesgue measure and that the cost is given by a strictly convex norm. We propose a new approach which does not use disintegration of measures.

The nonlinear membrane model : a Young measure and varifold formulation

Med Lamine Leghmizi, Christian Licht, Gérard Michaille (2005)

ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations

We establish two new formulations of the membrane problem by working in the space of W Γ 0 1 , p ( Ω , 𝐑 3 ) -Young measures and W Γ 0 1 , p ( Ω , 𝐑 3 ) -varifolds. The energy functional related to these formulations is obtained as a limit of the 3 d formulation of the behavior of a thin layer for a suitable variational convergence associated with the narrow convergence of Young measures and with some weak convergence of varifolds. The interest of the first formulation is to encode the oscillation informations on the gradients minimizing sequences...

The nonlinear membrane model: a Young measure and varifold formulation

Med Lamine Leghmizi, Christian Licht, Gérard Michaille (2010)

ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations

We establish two new formulations of the membrane problem by working in the space of W Γ 0 1 , p ( Ω , 𝐑 3 ) -Young measures and W Γ 0 1 , p ( Ω , 𝐑 3 ) -varifolds. The energy functional related to these formulations is obtained as a limit of the 3d formulation of the behavior of a thin layer for a suitable variational convergence associated with the narrow convergence of Young measures and with some weak convergence of varifolds. The interest of the first formulation is to encode the oscillation informations on the gradients minimizing...

The obstacle problem for functions of least gradient

William P. Ziemer, Kevin Zumbrun (1999)

Mathematica Bohemica

For a given domain Ω n , we consider the variational problem of minimizing the L 1 -norm of the gradient on Ω of a function u with prescribed continuous boundary values and satisfying a continuous lower obstacle condition u ψ inside Ω . Under the assumption of strictly positive mean curvature of the boundary Ω , we show existence of a continuous solution, with Holder exponent half of that of data and obstacle. This generalizes previous results obtained for the unconstrained and double-obstacle problems. The...

The parametric Weierstrass integral over a BV curve as a length functional

Loris Faina (1998)

Studia Mathematica

The constructive definition of the Weierstrass integral through only one limit process over finite sums is often preferable to the more sophisticated definition of the Serrin integral, especially for approximation purposes. By proving that the Weierstrass integral over a BV curve is a length functional with respect to a suitable metric, we discover a further natural reason for studying the Weierstrass integral. This characterization was conjectured by Menger.

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