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Existence and symmetry of minimizers for nonconvex radially symmetric variational problems

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

Nonconvex functionals with spherical symmetry are studied. Existence of one and radial symmetry of all global minimizers is shown with an approach based on convex relaxation.

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@article{arxiv.0704.3901,
  title  = {Existence and symmetry of minimizers for nonconvex radially symmetric variational problems},
  author = {Stefan Krömer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0704.3901},
  year   = {2007}
}

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22 pages, submitted to Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations