English

Gradient Young measures, varifolds, and a generalized Willmore functional

Optimization and Control 2012-10-30 v2

Abstract

Being Omega an open and bounded Lipschitz domain of R^n, we consider the generalized Willmore functional on Omega defined, for smooth functions, as the p-Willmore energy of each isolevel set integrated over all levels. We propose a new framework, that combines varifolds and Young measures, to study the relaxation of this functional in BV(Omega) with respect to the strong topology of L^1.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1112.2091,
  title  = {Gradient Young measures, varifolds, and a generalized Willmore functional},
  author = {Simon Masnou and Giacomo Nardi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1112.2091},
  year   = {2012}
}

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35 pages

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