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On the upper semicontinuity of a quasiconcave functional

Analysis of PDEs 2019-06-18 v1

Abstract

In the recent paper \cite{SER}, the second author proved a divergence-quasiconcavity inequality for the following functional D(A)=Tndet(A(x))1n1dx \mathbb{D}(A)=\int_{\mathbb{T}^n} det(A(x))^{\frac{1}{n-1}}\,dx defined on the space of pp-summable positive definite matrices with zero divergence. We prove that this implies the weak upper semicontinuity of the functional D()\mathbb{D}(\cdot) if and only if p>nn1p>\frac{n}{n-1}.

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@article{arxiv.1906.06510,
  title  = {On the upper semicontinuity of a quasiconcave functional},
  author = {Luigi De Rosa and Denis Serre and Riccardo Tione},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.06510},
  year   = {2019}
}

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16 pages