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Monotone approximation of differentiable convex functions with applications to general minimization problems

Analysis of PDEs 2025-04-04 v3 Functional Analysis

Abstract

We study minimizers of non-autonomous energies with minimal growth and coercivity assumptions on the energy. We show that the minimizer is nevertheless the solution of the relevant Euler--Lagrange equation or inequality. The main tool is an extension result for convex C1C^1-energies.

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@article{arxiv.2310.11920,
  title  = {Monotone approximation of differentiable convex functions with applications to general minimization problems},
  author = {Petteri Harjulehto and Peter Hästö and Andrea Torricelli},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.11920},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

The first word in the title was "monotonic" in earlier versions of the manuscript

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