A Varifolds Representation of the Relaxed Elastica Functional

Giovanni Bellettini; Luca Mugnai

Abstract

We prove a new representation result for the L1-lower semicontinuous envelope of the elastica functional in terms of a minimum problem over a suitable class of varifolds. We also show a representation result in a suitable class of Sobolev-type submanifolds.

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Giovanni Bellettini

Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Roma "Tor Vergata", Via della Ricerca Scientifica, 00133 Roma, Italy

belletti@mat.uniroma2.it

Luca Mugnai

Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Inselstr. 22-26, 04103 Leipzig, Germany

mugnai@mis.mpg.de

Keywords

Varifolds
representation result
L-1-lower semicontinuous envelope
elastica functional
minimum problem
Sobolev-type submanifolds

Suggested citation

G. Bellettini, L. Mugnai. “A Varifolds Representation of the Relaxed Elastica Functional.” Journal of Convex Analysis 14 (2007), No. 3, 543–564.