Tonelli's theorem (functional analysis)
- Tonelli's theorem (functional analysis)
In mathematics, Tonelli's theorem in functional analysis is a fundamental result on the weak lower semicontinuity of nonlinear functionals on "L""p" spaces. As such, it has major implications for functional analysis and the calculus of variations. Roughly, it shows that weak lower semicontinuity for integral functionals is equivalent to convexity of the integral kernel. The result is attributed to the Italian mathematician Leonida Tonelli.
tatement of the theorem
Let Ω be an open domain in "n"-dimensional Euclidean space R"n" and let "f" : R"m" → R ∪ {±∞} be a continuous extended real-valued function. Define a nonlinear functional "F" on functions "u" : Ω → R"m" by
:
Then "F" is sequentially weakly lower semicontinuous on the "L""p" space "L""p"(Ω; R"m") for 1 < "p" < +∞ and weakly-∗ lower semicontinuous on "L"∞(Ω; R"m") if and only if the function "f"
:
is convex.
References
* cite book
author = Renardy, Michael and Rogers, Robert C.
title = An introduction to partial differential equations
series = Texts in Applied Mathematics 13
edition = Second edition
publisher = Springer-Verlag
location = New York
year = 2004
pages = 347
id = ISBN 0-387-00444-0 (Theorem 9.16)
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