On Second-Order $L^\infty$ Variational Problems with Lower-Order Terms

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Main Authors: Dutton, Ben, Katzourakis, Nikos
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contents In this paper we study $2$nd order $L^\infty$ variational problems, through seeking to minimise a supremal functional involving the Hessian of admissible functions as well as lower-order terms. Specifically, given a bounded domain $Ω\subseteq \mathbb R^n$ and $\mathrm H : Ω\times\big(\mathbb R \times\mathbb R^n \times \mathbb R^{n^{\otimes2}}_s \big) \to \mathbb R$, we consider the functional \[ \mathrm{E}_\infty(u, \mathcal{O}) :=\underset{ \mathcal{O}}{\mathrm{ess}\sup}\hspace{1mm}\mathrm H (\cdot,u,\mathrm D u,\mathrm D^2u ) , \ \ u\in W^{2,\infty}(Ω), \ \mathcal{O} \subseteq Ω\text{ measurable}. \] We establish the existence of minimisers subject to (first-order) Dirichlet data on $\partial Ω$ under natural assumptions, and, when $n=1$, we also show the existence of absolute minimisers. We further derive a necessary fully nonlinear PDE of third-order which arises as the analogue of the Euler-Lagrange equation for absolute minimisers, and is given by $$ \ \ \mathrm H_{\mathrm X}(\cdot,u,\mathrm D u,\mathrm D^2u): \mathrm D\big(\mathrm H(\cdot,u,\mathrm D u,\mathrm D^2u)\big)\otimes \mathrm D\big(\mathrm H(\cdot,u,\mathrm D u,\mathrm D^2u)\big)=0\ \ \text{ in }Ω. $$ We then rigorously derive this PDE from smooth absolute minimisers, and prove the existence of generalised D-solutions to the (first-order) Dirichlet problem. Our work generalises the key results obtained in [26] which first studied problems of this type with pure Hessian dependence only, providing at the same time considerably simpler streamlined proofs.
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spellingShingle On Second-Order $L^\infty$ Variational Problems with Lower-Order Terms
Dutton, Ben
Katzourakis, Nikos
Analysis of PDEs
35J47, 35J60 (Primary) 35D30, 35A15 (Secondary)
In this paper we study $2$nd order $L^\infty$ variational problems, through seeking to minimise a supremal functional involving the Hessian of admissible functions as well as lower-order terms. Specifically, given a bounded domain $Ω\subseteq \mathbb R^n$ and $\mathrm H : Ω\times\big(\mathbb R \times\mathbb R^n \times \mathbb R^{n^{\otimes2}}_s \big) \to \mathbb R$, we consider the functional \[ \mathrm{E}_\infty(u, \mathcal{O}) :=\underset{ \mathcal{O}}{\mathrm{ess}\sup}\hspace{1mm}\mathrm H (\cdot,u,\mathrm D u,\mathrm D^2u ) , \ \ u\in W^{2,\infty}(Ω), \ \mathcal{O} \subseteq Ω\text{ measurable}. \] We establish the existence of minimisers subject to (first-order) Dirichlet data on $\partial Ω$ under natural assumptions, and, when $n=1$, we also show the existence of absolute minimisers. We further derive a necessary fully nonlinear PDE of third-order which arises as the analogue of the Euler-Lagrange equation for absolute minimisers, and is given by $$ \ \ \mathrm H_{\mathrm X}(\cdot,u,\mathrm D u,\mathrm D^2u): \mathrm D\big(\mathrm H(\cdot,u,\mathrm D u,\mathrm D^2u)\big)\otimes \mathrm D\big(\mathrm H(\cdot,u,\mathrm D u,\mathrm D^2u)\big)=0\ \ \text{ in }Ω. $$ We then rigorously derive this PDE from smooth absolute minimisers, and prove the existence of generalised D-solutions to the (first-order) Dirichlet problem. Our work generalises the key results obtained in [26] which first studied problems of this type with pure Hessian dependence only, providing at the same time considerably simpler streamlined proofs.
title On Second-Order $L^\infty$ Variational Problems with Lower-Order Terms
topic Analysis of PDEs
35J47, 35J60 (Primary) 35D30, 35A15 (Secondary)
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.11701