Variational Analysis in Sobolev and BV Spaces

Hedy Attouch is Professor of Mathematics at Université Montpellier II, France. He is Director of Laboratoire d'Analyse Convexe and of ACSIOM (the analysis, computational, and optimization component of the Institute of Mathematics and Modelization of Montpellier). He has published 100 articles and has supervised 23 theses in the fields of variational analysis and optimization. Giuseppe Buttazzo is Professor of Mathematics at Università di Pisa. He is an editor of several international journals and author of more than 130 scientific articles and 16 books. He has supervised 13 theses in the fields of calculus of variations, nonlinear PDEs, control theory, and related topics. Gérard Michaille is Professor at Centre Universitaire de Formation et de Recherche at Nîmes (CUFR) and a member of the UMR-CNRS I3S of the Mathematical Department at Université Montpellier II, France. He works in the fields of variational analysis and homogenization and their applications in mechanics.

Preface; 1. Introduction; Part I. First Part: Basic Variational Principles; 2. Weak solution methods in variational analysis; 3. Abstract variational principles; 4. Complements on measure theory; 5. Sobolev spaces; 6. Variational problems: Some classical examples; 7. The finite element method; 8. Spectral analysis of the Laplacian; 9. Convex duality and optimization; Part II. Second Part: Advanced Variational Analysis; 10. Spaces BV and SBV; 11. Relaxation in Sobolev, BV and Young measures spaces; 12. z-convergence and applications; 13. Integral functionals of the calculus of variations; 14. Application in mechanics and computer vision; 15. Variational problems with a lack of coercivity; 16. An introduction to shape optimization problems; Bibliography; Index.