DOI: 10.68381/jca25013 ISSN: 0944-6532

Some Remarks on the (Non-) Attainment of the Boundary Data for Variational Problems in the Space BV

Michael Bildhauer, Martin Fuchs

We discuss the standard relaxed version of a minimization problem for variational integrals of linear growth together with prescribed Dirichlet boundary data

u_0 u 0
and give estimates for the size of the set
\{x \in \partial \Omega: u (x) \not= u_0 (x)\} { x ∈ ∂ Ω : u ( x ) ≠ u 0 ( x ) }
for BV-minimizers
u u
which imply
{\cal{H}}^{n -1} \left(\left\{x \in \partial \Omega: u (x) < u_0 (x)\right\}\right) = {\cal{H}}^{n - 1} \left(\left\{x \in \partial \Omega: u (x) > u_0 (x) \right\}\right) H n − 1 ( { x ∈ ∂ Ω : u ( x ) < u 0 ( x ) } ) = H n − 1 ( { x ∈ ∂ Ω : u ( x ) > u 0 ( x ) } )
in the case of minimal surfaces
u u
not attaining the boundary values
u_0 u 0
on a subset of
\partial \Omega ∂ Ω
with positive measure.