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We study the weak* lower semicontinuity properties of functionals of the form
where Ω is a bounded open set of R N and u∈W 1,∞(Ω). Without a continuity assumption on f(⋅,ξ) we show that the supremal functional F is weakly* lower semicontinuous if and only if it is a level convex functional (i.e. it has convex sub-levels). In particular if F is weakly* lower semicontinuous, then it can be represented through a level convex function. Finally a counterexample shows that in general it is not possible to represent F through the level convex envelope of f.
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Prinari, F. Semicontinuity and Supremal Representation in the Calculus of Variations. Appl Math Optim 58, 111–145 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00245-007-9033-6
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