[For the first part of this paper see ESAIM, Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations.] Motivated by the study of multidimensional control problems of Dieudonné-Rashevsky type, e.g. nonconvex correspondence problems from image processing, we raise the question how to understand to notion of quasiconvexity for a continuous function ff with a convex body KRnm\K \subset \R instead of the whole space Rnm\R as the range of definition. Extending ff by (+)(+\infty) to the complement RnmK\R\setminus\,\K, the appropriate quasiconvex envelope turns out to be f(qc)(w)=sup{g(w)g ⁣:RnmR{(+)}f^{(qc)}(w) = \sup\, \bigl\{g(w)\, \big\vert\, g \colon \R \to \mathbb{R} \cup \{(+\infty)\} quasiconvex and lower semicontinuous, g(v)f(v) vRnm}.g(v) \le f(v)\ \forall v \in \R\bigr\}. In the present paper, we prove that f(qc)f^{(qc)} admits a representation as f(qc)(w)=f^{(qc)}(w) = Min {Kf(v)dν(v)νS(qc)(w)}wK\bigl\{\int_{\K} f(v)\,d\nu(v)\, \big\vert\, \nu \in \S^{(qc)}(w)\bigr\} \quad \forall w \in \K where the sets S(qc)(w)\S^{(qc)} (w) are nonempty, convex, weak^*-sequentially compact subsets of probability measures. This theorem, forming a natural counterpart to the author's previous results about the representation of f(qc)f^{(qc)} in terms of Jacobi matrices, has been proven indispensable for the derivation of Jensens' integral inequality as well as of differentiability theorems for the envelope f(qc)f^{(qc)}. The paper is mainly concerned with a detailed analysis of the set-valued map S(qc)\S^{(qc)}, which will be explicitely described in terms of averages of generalized controls.

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M. Wagner. “On the Lower Semicontinuous Quasiconvex Envelope for Unbounded Integrands (II): Representation by Generalized Controls.” Journal of Convex Analysis 16 (2009), No. 2, 441–472.