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Lower semicontinuity of surface energies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2011

Irene Fonseca
Irene Fonseca
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Department of Mathematics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, U.S.A.
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Synopsis

Using the theory of indicator measures, a lower semicontinuity result for quasiconvex functions in W1,1 and assuming only L1 convergence is obtained.

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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A: Mathematics , Volume 120 , Issue 1-2 , 1992 , pp. 99 - 115
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1992

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