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Linearisation at infinity and Lipschitz estimates for certain problems in the calculus of variations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2011

Michel Chipot  and
Lawrence C. Evans
Michel Chipot
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, U.S.A.
Lawrence C. Evans
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, U.S.A.
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Synopsis

We demonstrate local Lipschitz regularity for minimisers of certain functionals which are appropriately convex and quadratic near infinity. The proof employs a blow-up argument entailing a linearisation of the Euler—Lagrange equations “at infinity”. As a application, we prove that minimisers for the relaxed optimal design problem derived by Kohn and Strang [3] are locally Lipschitz.

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Research Article
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A: Mathematics , Volume 102 , Issue 3-4 , 1986 , pp. 291 - 303
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1986

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