Relaxation of quasilinear elliptic systems via A-quasiconvex envelopes

Raitums, Uldis

ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations, Tome 7 (2002), pp. 309-334

Résumé

We consider the weak closure $WZ$ of the set $Z$ of all feasible pairs (solution, flow) of the family of potential elliptic systems

$$\begin{array}{c}\mathrm{div}\left(\sum _{s=1}^{s_0}{\sigma }_s\left(x\right)F_s^{\text{'}}(\nabla u\left(x\right)+g\left(x\right))-f\left(x\right)\right)=0\text{in}\Omega ,\\ u=(u_1,\cdots ,u_m)\in H_0^1(\Omega ;{𝐑}^m),\sigma =({\sigma }_1,\cdots ,{\sigma }_{s_0})\in S,\end{array}$$

where $\Omega \subset {𝐑}^n$ is a bounded Lipschitz domain, $F_s$ are strictly convex smooth functions with quadratic growth and $S=\{\sigma \text{measurable}\mid {\sigma }_s\left(x\right)=0\text{or}1,s=1,\cdots ,s_0,{\sigma }_1\left(x\right)+\cdots +{\sigma }_{s_0}\left(x\right)=1\}$. We show that $WZ$ is the zero level set for an integral functional with the integrand $Qℱ$ being the $𝐀$-quasiconvex envelope for a certain function $ℱ$ and the operator $𝐀={\left(\text{curl,div}\right)}^m$. If the functions $F_s$ are isotropic, then on the characteristic cone $\Lambda$ (defined by the operator $𝐀$) $Qℱ$ coincides with the $𝐀$-polyconvex envelope of $ℱ$ and can be computed by means of rank-one laminates.

Détail

DOI : 10.1051/cocv:2002014

Classification : 49J45
Keywords: quasilinear elliptic system, relaxation, A-quasiconvex envelope