โ Scribed by Irene Fonseca, Giovanni Leoni
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This book addresses fundamental questions related to lower semicontinuity and relaxation of functionals within the unconstrained setting, mainly in L^p spaces. It prepares the ground for the second volume where the variational treatment of functionals involving fields and their derivatives will be undertaken within the framework of Sobolev spaces.
This book is self-contained. All the statements are fully justified and proved, with the exception of basic results in measure theory, which may be found in any good textbook on the subject. It also contains several exercises. Therefore, it may be used both as a graduate textbook as well as a reference text for researchers in the field.
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
This book is a new edition of the authors previous book entitled Direct Methods in the Calculus of Variations, 1989. It is devoted to the study of vectorial problems in the calculus of variations. The book has been updated significantly and a number of additional examples have been included. The boo