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December 2-4, 2016
Judith Campos Cordero (University of Augsburg)
Regularity up to the boundary and sufficient conditions for strong local minimality
The question of finding suitable conditions to guarantee that a given map minimizes a functional is a fundamental problem in the Calculus of Variations. It was first solved by Weierstrass in the scalar case and, after developments from Hestenes [5], Taheri [9], Zhang [10], Kristensen & Taheri [8], etc., Grabovsky & Mengesha [7] finally solved the problem for the vectorial case. Their result is framed under the natural quasiconvexity assumptions. It establishes that $C^1$-extremals at which the second variation is strictly positive are, in fact, strong local minimizers. This settled affirmatively a conjecture by Ball [1], according to which a set of sufficient conditions should be based on the notion of quasiconvexity.
In this work we present a new proof of the seminal result by Grabovsky & Mengesha. Furthermore, we introduce a full regularity result (up to the boundary), which aims at relaxing the a priori regularity assumption on the extremal. This is in deep connection with further recent results regarding partial boundary regularity for strong local minimizers [3].
References:
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[3] J. Campos Cordero. Boundary regularity and sufficient conditions for strong local minimizers. Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.01614
[4] J. Campos Cordero and K. Koumatos. Necessary and sufficient conditions for strong local minimizers on non-smooth domains. Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.07626
[5] M. R. Hestenes. Sufficient conditions for multiple integral problems in the calculus of variations. Amer. J. Math., 70:239-276, 1948.
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