A uniqueness result for the quasiconvex operator and first order PDEs for convex envelopes

Barron, E.N.; Jensen, R.R.

doi:10.1016/j.anihpc.2013.02.006

Barron, E.N. ; Jensen, R.R.

Annales de l'I.H.P. Analyse non linéaire, Tome 31 (2014) no. 2, pp. 203-215.

Résumé

The operator involved in quasiconvex functions is $L (u) = \min_{| y | = 1, y \cdot D u = 0} y D^{2} u y^{T}$ and this also arises as the governing operator in a worst case tug-of-war (Kohn and Serfaty (2006) [7]) and principal curvature of a surface. In Barron et al. (2012) [4] a comparison principle for $L (u) = g > 0$ was proved. A new and much simpler proof is presented in this paper based on Barles and Busca (2001) [3] and Lu and Wang (2008) [8]. Since $L (u) / | D u |$ is the minimal principal curvature of a surface, we show by example that $L (u) - g | D u | = 0$ does not have a unique solution, even if $g > 0$ . Finally, we complete the identification of first order evolution problems giving the convex envelope of a given function.

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DOI : 10.1016/j.anihpc.2013.02.006

Classification : 35D40, 52A41
Mots-clés : Quasiconvex, Principal curvature, Convex envelope

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Barron, E.N.; Jensen, R.R. A uniqueness result for the quasiconvex operator and first order PDEs for convex envelopes. Annales de l'I.H.P. Analyse non linéaire, Tome 31 (2014) no. 2, pp. 203-215. doi : 10.1016/j.anihpc.2013.02.006. http://www.numdam.org/articles/10.1016/j.anihpc.2013.02.006/

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