Calculus of variations
Duality for non-convex variational problems
[Dualité pour des problèmes variationnels non convexes]
Comptes Rendus. Mathématique, Tome 353 (2015) no. 4, pp. 375-379.

On considère des problèmes classiques en calcul de variations de la forme (1), ou Ω est un ouvert borné de RN, (Γ0,Γ1) une partition de ∂Ω, γ une fonction lipschitzienne et f=f(t,z) est une fonction s.c.i. qui vérifie des hypothèses de croissance, avec dépendence convexe en z mais a priori non convexe en t. On présente une nouvelle théorie de dualité, où le problème dual apparaît comme un problème de programmation linéaire. L'existence d'une solution à ce problème constitue une question délicate. Dans cette note, elle est obtenue en dimension un, et en dimension supérieure moyennant quelques hypothèses supplémentaires. Nos résultats s'appliquent à des problèmes de transition de phase et à frontière libre.

We consider classical problems of the calculus of variations of the kind

I(Ω):=inf{Ωf(u,u)dx+Γ1γ(u)dHN1,u=u0onΓ0}(1)
where Ω is an open bounded subset of RN, (Γ0,Γ1) is a partition of ∂Ω, γ is a Lipschitz function, and f=f(t,z) is an l.s.c. function satisfying suitable growth conditions, which is convex in z, but possibly not in t. We present a new duality theory in which the dual problem reads quite nicely as a linear programming problem. The solvability of such a dual problem is a major issue. It can be achieved in the one-dimensional case, and in higher dimensions under special assumptions on f. Our results apply to phase transition and free-boundary problems.

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DOI : 10.1016/j.crma.2015.01.014
Bouchitté, Guy 1 ; Fragalà, Ilaria 2

1 Laboratoire IMATH, Université de Toulon et du Var, 83957 La Garde cedex, France
2 Dipartimento di Matematica, Politecnico, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci, 20133 Milano, Italy
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Bouchitté, Guy; Fragalà, Ilaria. Duality for non-convex variational problems. Comptes Rendus. Mathématique, Tome 353 (2015) no. 4, pp. 375-379. doi : 10.1016/j.crma.2015.01.014. http://archive.numdam.org/articles/10.1016/j.crma.2015.01.014/

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