Relaxation of Non-Convex Integral Functionals in the Multidimensional Scalar Case

Abstract

We study integral functionals defined on scalar Sobolev spaces of the form $$E[f]:u\mapsto {\int }_{\hat{I}}\text{c◯}f(x,u(x),\nabla u(x))dx,$$ with an emphasis on the non-convex case, and the difficulties it involves to prevent the Lavrentiev phenomenon. We determine a formulation of the lower semicontinuous envelope of $E[f]$ with respect to various topologies and with fixed Lipschitz Dirichlet boundary conditions.

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