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Well posedness and porosity in the calculus of variations without convexity assumptions

✍ Scribed by Alexander J. Zaslavski


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2003
Tongue
English
Weight
200 KB
Volume
53
Category
Article
ISSN
0362-546X

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✦ Synopsis


The Tonelli existence theorem in the calculus of variations and its subsequent modiÿcations were established for integrands f which satisfy convexity and growth conditions. In Zaslavski (Nonlinear Analysis 43 (200l) 339), a generic well-posedness result (with respect to variations of the integrand of the integral functional) without the convexity condition was established for a class of optimal control problems satisfying the Cesari growth condition. In Zaslavski (Communications in Applied Analysis, to appear) we extended this generic well-posedness result to a class of variational problems in which the values at the end points are also subject to variations. More precisely, we established a generic well-posedness result for a class of variational problems (without convexity assumptions) over functions with values in a Banach space E which is identiÿed with the corresponding complete metric space of pairs (f; ( 1; 2)) (where f is an integrand satisfying the Cesari growth condition and 1; 2 ∈ E are the values at the end points) denoted by A. We showed that for a generic (f; ( 1; 2)) ∈ A the corresponding variational problem is well posed. In this paper we study the set of all pairs (f; ( 1; 2)) ∈ A for which the corresponding variational problem is well posed. We show that the complement of this set is not only of the ÿrst category but also a -porous set.


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