Abstract

We study the relaxation of a class of functionals defined on distances induced by isotropic Riemannian metrics on an open subset of RN\mathbb{R}^N. We prove that isotropic Riemannian metrics are dense in Finsler ones and we show that the relaxed functionals admit a specific integral representation.

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Andrea Davini

Dip. di Matematica, Università di Pisa, via Buonarroti 2, 56127 Pisa, Italy

davini@dm.unipi.it

Keywords

  • Riemannian and Finsler metrics
  • relaxation
  • Gamma convergence

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Suggested citation

A. Davini. “On the Relaxation of a Class of Functionals Defined on Riemannian Distances.” Journal of Convex Analysis 12 (2005), No. 1, 113–130. https://doi.org/10.68381/jca12007

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