Differential Inclusions in SBV₀(Ω) and Applications to the Calculus of Variations

We study necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of solutions in $SBV_0(\Omega)$ of a variational problem involving only bulk energy. Related to that we study the problem of finding $u \in SBV_0(\Omega)$ such that $$\nabla u (x)\in E,\text{ a.e. in } \Omega,$$ subject to the condition $$\int \nabla u = \zeta_0 |\Omega|,$$ where $E\subseteq \mathbb{R}^N$ is a given set and $\zeta_0 \in$ int co $E$ is prescribed