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Boundary effects and weak$^*$ lower semicontinuity for signed integral functionals on $\mathrm{BV}$

Analysis of PDEs 2015-01-27 v1

Abstract

We characterize lower semicontinuity of integral functionals with respect to weak^* convergence in BV\mathrm{BV}, including integrands whose negative part has linear growth. In addition, we allow for sequences without a fixed trace at the boundary. In this case, both the integrand and the shape of the boundary play a key role. This is made precise in our newly found condition -- quasi-sublinear growth from below at points of the boundary -- which compensates for possible concentration effects generated by the sequence. Our work extends some recent results by J. Kristensen and F. Rindler (Arch. Rat. Mech. Anal. 197 (2010), 539--598 and Calc. Var. 37 (2010), 29--62).

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@article{arxiv.1405.0449,
  title  = {Boundary effects and weak$^*$ lower semicontinuity for signed integral functionals on $\mathrm{BV}$},
  author = {Barbora Benešová and Stefan Krömer and Martin Kružík},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.0449},
  year   = {2015}
}
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