Sharpness and non-sharpness of occupation measure bounds for integral variational problems
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| author | Fantuzzi, Giovanni Tobasco, Ian |
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| contents | We analyze two recently proposed methods to establish a priori lower bounds on the minimum of general integral variational problems. The methods, which involve either `occupation measures' or a `pointwise dual relaxation' procedure, are shown to produce the same lower bound under a coercivity hypothesis ensuring their strong duality. We then show by a minimax argument that the methods actually evaluate the minimum for classes of one-dimensional, scalar-valued, or convex multidimensional problems. For generic problems, however, these methods should fail to capture the minimum and produce non-sharp lower bounds. We demonstrate this using two examples, the first of which is one-dimensional and scalar-valued with a non-convex constraint, and the second of which is multidimensional and non-convex in a different way. The latter example emphasizes the existence in multiple dimensions of nonlinear constraints on gradient fields that are ignored by occupation measures, but are built into the finer theory of gradient Young measures. |
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| spellingShingle | Sharpness and non-sharpness of occupation measure bounds for integral variational problems Fantuzzi, Giovanni Tobasco, Ian Optimization and Control Analysis of PDEs 49J45, 49N15, 49M20 We analyze two recently proposed methods to establish a priori lower bounds on the minimum of general integral variational problems. The methods, which involve either `occupation measures' or a `pointwise dual relaxation' procedure, are shown to produce the same lower bound under a coercivity hypothesis ensuring their strong duality. We then show by a minimax argument that the methods actually evaluate the minimum for classes of one-dimensional, scalar-valued, or convex multidimensional problems. For generic problems, however, these methods should fail to capture the minimum and produce non-sharp lower bounds. We demonstrate this using two examples, the first of which is one-dimensional and scalar-valued with a non-convex constraint, and the second of which is multidimensional and non-convex in a different way. The latter example emphasizes the existence in multiple dimensions of nonlinear constraints on gradient fields that are ignored by occupation measures, but are built into the finer theory of gradient Young measures. |
| title | Sharpness and non-sharpness of occupation measure bounds for integral variational problems |
| topic | Optimization and Control Analysis of PDEs 49J45, 49N15, 49M20 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.13570 |