We give a characterization of all lower semicontinuous functionals on Lm¥ which can be represented in the form m-sup{ f(x, u): x from A }. We also show by a counterexample that the representation above may fail if the lower semicontinuity condition is dropped.

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Giuseppe Buttazzo

Dip. di Matematica, Università di Pisa, Via Buonarroti 2, 56127 Pisa, Italy

buttazzo@dm.unipi.it

Francesca Prinari

Dip. di Matematica, Università di Pisa, Via Buonarroti 2, 56127 Pisa, Italy

prinari@dm.unipi.it

E. Acerbi, G. Buttazzo, F. Prinari. “The Class of Functionals which can be Represented by a Supremum.” Journal of Convex Analysis 9 (2002), No. 1, 225–236.