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Relaxation and integral representation for functionals of linear growth on metric measure spaces

Functional Analysis 2014-01-23 v1

Abstract

This article studies an integral representation of functionals of linear growth on metric measure spaces with a doubling measure and a Poincar\'e inequality. Such a functional is defined through relaxation, and it defines a Radon measure on the space. For the singular part of the functional, we get the expected integral representation with respect to the variation measure. A new feature is that in the representation for the absolutely continuous part, a constant appears already in the weighted Euclidean case. As an application we show that in a variational minimization problem related to the functional, boundary values can be presented as a penalty term.

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@article{arxiv.1401.5717,
  title  = {Relaxation and integral representation for functionals of linear growth on metric measure spaces},
  author = {Heikki Hakkarainen and Juha Kinnunen and Panu Lahti and Pekka Lehtelä},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1401.5717},
  year   = {2014}
}