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A viscosity equation for minimizers of a class of very degenerate elliptic functionals

Analysis of PDEs 2012-06-18 v1

Abstract

We consider the functional J(v)=Ω[f(v)v]dx,J(v) = \int_\Omega [f(|\nabla v|) - v] dx, where Ω\Omega is a bounded domain and f:[0,+)Rf:[0,+\infty)\to \mathbb{R} is a convex function vanishing for s[0,σ]s\in [0,\sigma], with σ>0\sigma>0. We prove that a minimizer uu of JJ satisfies an equation of the form min(F(u,D2u),uσ)=0\min(F(\nabla u, D^2 u), |\nabla u|-\sigma)=0 in the viscosity sense.

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@article{arxiv.1206.3426,
  title  = {A viscosity equation for minimizers of a class of very degenerate elliptic functionals},
  author = {Giulio Ciraolo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1206.3426},
  year   = {2012}
}