On the relaxation of polyconvex functionals with linear growth under strict convergence in $BV$

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Main Author: Scala, Riccardo
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contents We consider the relaxation of polyconvex functionals with linear growth with respect to the strict convergence in the space of functions of bounded variation. These functionals appears as relaxation of $F(u,Ω):=\int_Ωf(\nabla u)dx$, where $u:Ω\rightarrow \mathbb R^m$, and $f$ is polyconvex. In constrast with the case of relaxation with respect to the standard $L^1$-convergence, in the case that $Ω$ is $2$-dimensional, we prove that the sets map $A\mapsto F(u,A)$ for $A$ open, is, for every $u\in BV(Ω;\mathbb R^m)$, $m\geq1$, the restriction of a Borel measure. This is not true in the case $Ω\subset\mathbb R^n$, with $n\geq3$. Using the integral representation formula for a special class of functions, we also show the presence of Cartesian maps whose relaxed area functional with respect to the $L^1$-convergence is strictly larger than the area of its graph.
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spellingShingle On the relaxation of polyconvex functionals with linear growth under strict convergence in $BV$
Scala, Riccardo
Analysis of PDEs
49J45, 49Q05, 49Q15, 28A05, 28A75, 74B20
We consider the relaxation of polyconvex functionals with linear growth with respect to the strict convergence in the space of functions of bounded variation. These functionals appears as relaxation of $F(u,Ω):=\int_Ωf(\nabla u)dx$, where $u:Ω\rightarrow \mathbb R^m$, and $f$ is polyconvex. In constrast with the case of relaxation with respect to the standard $L^1$-convergence, in the case that $Ω$ is $2$-dimensional, we prove that the sets map $A\mapsto F(u,A)$ for $A$ open, is, for every $u\in BV(Ω;\mathbb R^m)$, $m\geq1$, the restriction of a Borel measure. This is not true in the case $Ω\subset\mathbb R^n$, with $n\geq3$. Using the integral representation formula for a special class of functions, we also show the presence of Cartesian maps whose relaxed area functional with respect to the $L^1$-convergence is strictly larger than the area of its graph.
title On the relaxation of polyconvex functionals with linear growth under strict convergence in $BV$
topic Analysis of PDEs
49J45, 49Q05, 49Q15, 28A05, 28A75, 74B20
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11041