DOI: 10.68381/jca09017 ISSN: 0944-6532

Another Counterexample to Lower Semicontinuity in Calculus of Variations

Robert Černý, Jan Malý

An example is shown of a functional

F(u)=\int_{I}f(u,u')\,dt F ( u ) = ∫ I f ( u , u ′ )   d t
which is not lower semicontinuous with respect to
L^1 L 1
-convergence. The function
f f
is nonnegative, continuous and strictly convex in the second variable for each
u \in {\mathbb R}^n u ∈ R n
.