We provide a sufficient condition for lower semicontinuity of nonautonomous noncoercive surface energies defined on the space of $GSBD^p$ functions, whose dependence on the $x$-variable is $W^{1,1}$ or even $BV$: the notion of \emph{nonautonomous symmetric joint convexity}, which extends the analogous definition devised for autonomous integrands in \cite{FPS} where the conservativeness of the approximating vector fields is assumed. This condition allows to extend to our setting a nonautonomous chain formula in $SBV$ obtained in \cite{ACDD}, and this is a key tool in the proof of the lower semicontinuity result. This new joint convexity can be checked explicitly for some classes of surface energies arising from variational models of fractures in inhomogeneous materials.
Lower semicontinuity in GSBD for nonautonomous surface integrals / De Cicco, V.; Scilla, G.. - In: ESAIM-CONTROL OPTIMISATION AND CALCULUS OF VARIATIONS. - ISSN 1262-3377. - 29:(2023), pp. 707-730. [10.1051/cocv/2023001]
Lower semicontinuity in GSBD for nonautonomous surface integrals
De Cicco V.;Scilla G.
2023
Abstract
We provide a sufficient condition for lower semicontinuity of nonautonomous noncoercive surface energies defined on the space of $GSBD^p$ functions, whose dependence on the $x$-variable is $W^{1,1}$ or even $BV$: the notion of \emph{nonautonomous symmetric joint convexity}, which extends the analogous definition devised for autonomous integrands in \cite{FPS} where the conservativeness of the approximating vector fields is assumed. This condition allows to extend to our setting a nonautonomous chain formula in $SBV$ obtained in \cite{ACDD}, and this is a key tool in the proof of the lower semicontinuity result. This new joint convexity can be checked explicitly for some classes of surface energies arising from variational models of fractures in inhomogeneous materials.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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