Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
5775030 Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications 2017 22 Pages PDF
Abstract
Recently, A. Greco utilized convex rearrangements to present some new and interesting existence results for noncoercive functionals in the calculus of variations. Moreover, the integrands were not necessarily convex. In particular, using convex rearrangements permitted him to establish the existence of convex minimizers essentially considering the uniform convergence of the minimizing sequence of trajectories and the pointwise convergence of their derivatives. The desired lower semicontinuity property is now a consequence of Fatou's lemma. In this paper we point out that such an approach was considered in the late 1930's in a series of papers by E.J. McShane for problems satisfying the usual coercivity condition. In addition, we will update some hypotheses that McShane made by making use of a result due to T.S. Angell, concerning property (D) on the avoidance of the Lavrentiev phenomenon.
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