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In this study, we approach the analysis of a degenerate nonlinear functional in one dimension, accommodating a degenerate weight $w$. Our investigation focuses on establishing an explicit relaxation formula for a functional exhibiting…

We consider degenerate nonautonomous energies $$ \int_\Omega f(x, Dv)\, dx, $$ for vector-valued functions $v \in W^{1,1}(\Omega, \mathbb{R}^N)$, where the integrand $f(x,P)$ satisfies growth and weak uniform quasiconvexity assumption…

Relaxation theorems for multiple integrals on W^{1,p}(\Omega;\RR^m), where p\in]1,\infty[, are proved under general conditions on the integrand L:\MM\to[0,\infty] which is Borel measurable and not necessarily finite. We involve a…

We derive the quasiconvex relaxation of the Biot-type energy density $\lVert\sqrt{\operatorname{D}\varphi^T \operatorname{D}\varphi}-I_2\rVert^2$ for planar mappings $\varphi\colon\mathbb{R}^2\to \mathbb{R}^2$ in two different scenarios.…

This tutorial summarizes recent advances in the convex relaxation of the optimal power flow (OPF) problem, focusing on structural properties rather than algorithms. Part I presents two power flow models, formulates OPF and their relaxations…

Second-order structured deformations of continua provide an extension of the multiscale geometry of first-order structured deformations by taking into account the effects of submacroscopic bending and curving. We derive here an integral…

We compute the relaxation of the total energy related to a variational model for nematic elastomers, involving a nonlinear elastic mechanical energy depending on the orientation of the molecules of the nematic elastomer, and a nematic…

We provide a general treatment of perturbations of a class of functionals modeled on convolution energies with integrable kernel which approximate the $p$-th norm of the gradient as the kernel is scaled by letting a small parameter…

We study MINLO (mixed-integer nonlinear optimization) formulations of the disjunction $x\in\{0\}\cup[\ell,u]$, where $z$ is a binary indicator of $x\in[\ell,u]$ ($0 \leq \ell <u$), and $y$ "captures" $f(x)$, which is assumed to be convex…

We show convexity of solutions to a class of convex variational problems in the Gauss and in the Wiener space. An important tool in the proof is a representation formula for integral functionals in this infinite dimensional setting, that…

We study relaxation of nonconvex integrals of the calculus of variations in the setting of Cheeger-Sobolev spaces when the integrand has not polynomial growth and can take infinite values.

We consider in R^2 the generalized elastica functional defined, for smooth functions, as the p-elastica energies of the level lines integrated over all levels. Extending the functional to L1, we study its L1-lower semicontinuous envelope…

A double-well energy expressed as a minimum of two quadratic functions, called phase energies, is studied with taking into account the minimization of the corresponding integral functional. Such integral, as being not sequentially weakly…

An integral representation result is obtained for the relaxation of a class of energy functionals depending on two vector fields with different behaviors which appear in the context of thermochemical equilibria and are related to image…

We prove higher summability for the gradient of minimizers of strongly convex integral functionals of the Calculus of Variations with (p,q)-Growth conditions in low dimension. Our procedure is set in the framework of Fractional Sobolev…

We propose some general growth conditions on the function $% f=f\left( x,\xi \right) $, including the so-called natural growth, or polynomial, or $p,q-$growth conditions, or even exponential growth, in order to obtain that any local…

We provide explicit examples to show that the relaxation of functionals $$ L^p(\Omega;\mathbb{R}^m) \ni u\mapsto \int_\Omega\int_\Omega W(u(x), u(y))\, dx\, dy, $$ where $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^n$ is an open and bounded set, $1<p<\infty$…

We establish the higher fractional differentiability for the minimizers of non-autonomous integral functionals of the form \begin{equation} \mathcal{F}(u,\Omega):=\int_\Omega \left[ f(x,Du)- g \cdot u \right] dx , \notag \end{equation}…

In this paper we consider the minimization of a novel class of fractional linear growth functionals involving the Riesz fractional gradient. These functionals lack the coercivity properties in the fractional Sobolev spaces needed to apply…

We study local regularity properties of local minimizer of scalar integral functionals of the form $$\mathcal F[u]:=\int_\Omega F(\nabla u)-f u\,dx$$ where the convex integrand $F$ satisfies controlled $(p,q)$-growth conditions. We…